A good film with a great story. Well worth it's fan base and I'm not even a fan. Even I was impressed.

Rating: 8/10 (21 November 2013)

Over the past four years, I've been working at a cinema and I kept hearing the trailers to this movie and at first it didn't take my interest at all, in fact it was annoying me quite a bit.
In the end I decided to go and see it, expecting it to be another Twilight or Harry Potter clone and expecting it to be a load of rubbish.
Now I'm not a fan, I've never read the books (nor do I wish to). I'm a complete outsider to this franchise and I knew next to nothing about The Hunger Games. So I'm looking at this film from an independent point of view compared to most people who did review this film and are fans. I hope this review will show that.
When I was watching the film for the first time, although I felt it started of very slow. Throughout the film and towards the end, my feelings, expectations towards it and its franchise as a whole completely changed. I thought it was a brilliant film.
Although this film is based mostly towards teens and young adults, even I was impressed and I'm a lot older than most teens or young adults and that's saying something.
One thing I hate about Teeny films like Twilight. Is all this boy meets girl, boy loves girl, boy marries girl and live happily ever after, that is such a lot of crap. What impressed me about The Hunger Games, is that there isn't too much of that in there. There is a good story attached to it which isn't ruined by too much CGI and special effects. Which sadly most movies nowadays are.
I'm not gonna say anything about what the story is about in this review, what would be the point. Most of you will properly know about it already. It's funny, it's sad, it's emotional, got a great deal of action. Even the actress who played Katniss Everdeen was brilliant, I can only imagine that's a tough role for a young actress to play and Jennifer Lawrence did it well. So did the rest of the cast with their roles. Well done guys and gals.
All I can say is The Hunger Games has now become one of my favourite films of all time and I don't say that easily or often.
All in all. A great film, great story, great cast, great actors and actresses. Suzanne Collins I believe these people and the film itself have done your Hunger Games stories justice. Congratulations.