Not good enough

Rating: 5/10 (21 August 2012)

The biggest flaw of this movie is the way the contestants behave. Imagine being thrown away into a jungle arena in which 23 of the 24 people will certainly die. You would be paranoid, on the edge, aggressive. You would trust no one. Well, in this movie it's just the opposite: The contestants immediately make pacts that everyone takes for granted,nobody watches their back, they sleep like babies all together under a tree which their rival has climbed upon. They sit right in the middle of an evacuation area like a duck although their rivals have bows. It is as if these are not young people facing horrible ways to die, but contestants of a singer/dancer competition. There is no tension in the movie, which was the first thing to put in there in order to make it at least a little bit believable. Besides that, the control room interferes with the game bluntly and openly. People wouldn't like to watch that. It's like watching a quiz show although you know they give away the answers. The control room shoots fireballs at the contestants, imagine the rest!