Over-hyped, shaky camera work

Rating: 3/10 (3 May 2012)

I read the first book didn't like it, so I knew I wasn't going to like the movie but I went to see only because it was a class trip. The movie is to over-hyped and won way to much money at the box office. It really wasn't that great of a movie. I am going to start with the first thing that I noticed was going to make the movie awful from the first scene was the shaky camera work. The entire movie had awful camera work, during the fight scenes which is supposed to be the whole point of the movie you could barley see what was happening because of the camera. Every review that I have read everyone is says that the acting was great, I didn't feel that way. Like most teenage actor/actress their acting really isn't that good and it was the same thing in this movie. There was no real emotion in any of the actor/actress voice, witch made the performance not believable. The dialogue was weak there was a lot of cheesy corny love lines, the movie is supposed to attract 10-13 year old kids and most kids don't want a movie filled with love lines. Another big problem with the movie was the character development, there was no connection with any of the characters and they didn't explain the characters well enough for any type of emotional connection when one of them would die. But I can't blame all of this on the filmmakers its mainly the authors fault because the book was made in 1st person the only character that we really know anything about is Katniss and to me that isn't good enough especially for a book where people are being killed. Finally the plot for the movie has been done to many time, Battle Royale is very similar to this movie, so because the plot has been done way to may times i felt that there was really nothing that was original in this movie/book. I recommend this for anyone who just wants to wast 2 hours, it nothing new nor special. I would wait for it to come out on redbox, netflix or when it is the $5 bin.