Good But Not Great !

Rating: 7/10 (19 July 2012)

my friends and i have been waiting for this movie ,but after reading some reviews we felt that it wasn't worth seeing .but then later i decided to check it out anyway . i started the movie with a very critical attitude based on what I've heard and read about it, but then i actually began enjoying it . i never read the book so i can't comment on whether it was faithful to the book or not ,but all i can say is that this is an enjoyable movie that could have been better or more epic . The story of the movie is great ,the idea of real lives being used as TV entertainment is appealing . it's about the cruelty of governors ,starving their people ,using their children as animals to hunt each others for their entertainment . So apparently it's a great story ,the only problem is that they could have done a lot better with it ,i don't know exactly what was missing but i think maybe it wasn't gory enough .i wanted to hate the people who held the competition and i wanted to sympathize more with the children .maybe if this movie was rated R ,it would have been much better .it would have really shown the violence ,really made us feel the message it was supposed to deliver. Also another thing that didn't work so well ,is the way the camera moved sometimes ,shaking then focusing on a face ,it was weird and a little disturbing sometimes ,there were some points i felt that someone was shaking the camera deliberately not to make me see what was happening. overall it was a good fun to watch to movie but not great.