Liked the movie, even though it was far from perfect

Rating: 8/10 (23 January 2013)

I liked the movie, even though it was far from perfect. I found it original, although as it went on there were some similarities to The Running Man, and The Long Walk, both, incidentally by Stephen King. I found the political situation interesting. Likely fleshed out a lot more in the novel, but from what I gathered, there had been a civil war about seventy years in the past, and they seem stuck in eternal Reconstruction. Instead of binding the nation back together over time, as we did, the losing side's territory has become occupied and exploited colonies, even four generations later. I also noted that many of the characters from the "Capitol", the winning territory, had Roman names, e.g. Cinna, Octavia, Flavius, Cato, Seneca. Hmmm. Well, I don't quite care enough to read the book, and likely not enough to see the inevitable sequels.