In General

Rating: 8/10 (6 May 2012)

It's pretty good. Most of the unfavourable reviews come from a tendency, which might be called - No, there isn't a chance, that a film based on a teen-bestseller book-might be - artistically good. But well, it is. A genuinely perfect scene-to-scene montage reflects the struggles of unimaginable dictatorship. As for actorship I'd like to mention Wes Bentley and Donald Sutherland as making the perfect "baddie" image. Especially Snow's mono-dialogue about hope - which is near to Gregory Peck's acting. The trembling camera comes and goes as a feature, but it establishes a certain here-be feeling, which might've been lost in some of the terrible CGI scenes. All in all - even a literature critic, who happened not to have read "The Hunger Games" "read" all she needed from Gary Ross's sweat and blood, which took to make this extraordinary good ecranisation.