Only for teenagers...

Rating: 5/10 (28 March 2012)

Let's be fair, I am NOT a teenager, and I might like it if I'm under 18.
I did my homework by finishing the book over the weekend b4 watching(for which I don't like already anyway), and hope the actions would make it better.
The whole plot is simply following the book, all those "big events" just laid out to be served by the director. The "romance" is just cheesy and high school like.
Camera work is little overdone for being too shaky, and many of the "actions" are kind of skipped.
Acting wise, it's kind of up and down for Katniss, at some point you can feel her toughness but at times it just feels like she is just being "girl in iron mask". She has hard time interpreting the "fake love" feeling with Peeta. What's worse is the tributes all look so FRESH and unharmed after all the suffering and exhaustion, it almost feels like they just have buffet and sleep 12 hrs daily in the wood.
It just got kind of bad after mid point of movie, I keep seeing people come and go, to get water, get popcorn, go to washroom. And people LAUGH at somewhere that's suppose to be serious (I see a guy in deep sleep in front of me too..)
Nothing lost if you don't watch this movie honestly...