Close but not just it

Rating: 7/10 (23 March 2012)

The screen writers, producer and director assumes the movie audience has read the books. Very little character development. Key characters missing altogether. If you haven't read the books several scenes may have you asking "What was that about?" This movie is a good visual to book one but several changes annoyed me. Ho-hum on the CGI. The news media is making a big deal about this movie being about kids killing kids. Isn't that happening in our lives now. To me this movie the books are about government control. Hunger games are about penalizing its citizens for an uprising 74 years ago. Basically, be happy we are only killing off 23 of your children each year, we can do worse.