when Battle Royale meets hi-school musical

Rating: 1/10 (14 September 2012)

All in all a good excuse to watch again Battle Royale, the original and better version of this soulless clone, although its making came home for 1/20 of Hunger Games budget. Even poor Stanley Tucci, the only real actor (and what an actor he generally is) in this film, has a hard time standing out in this cliché imbued clone. Because this is not a sequel or a remake, it's a clone. Far from being terrible and telling as Battle Royale is (within the obvious limits of a film with imperfection and mistakes), Hunger Games turns an interesting politic-fi story into a twilight-like teen-oriented desperate quest for coolness, failing to deliver the real soul of the original idea.
Folks, I know despite sometimes stellar budgets, good movies are rare to come by, but you can always watch again some Kurosawa instead of hi- rating 142min commercials like this one just because "it's still better than found footage lame horror crap, anyway".
There are better options.