This is a Rated R story that got turned into a pg13 movie

Rating: 2/10 (28 March 2012)

First off id like to say that this story is a blatant ripoff of Arnold Schwarzenegger's 'the running man' cept nowhere near as good or entertaining. Save yourself the time and money seeing this and just rent that one unless of course you're 12, then this movie is for you. That said, this movies biggest problem is that its main focus is about killing, yet they skimp out on showing any actual killing. The opening scene of the battle shouldve been a bloodbath, but instead turns into a copout cutawayfest as the camera only shows people falling down dead after what we assume is being stabbed or whatnot. You cant make a movie about such dark themes and not have violence. its just absurd. they seem to have blurred out all the actual plot and violence, and focused on the fake relationship between the main actress and her peer(which is lackluster at best) to sell this movie to the tween audience
its clear that the movie industry was trying too hard to market this movie to tweens(apparently the adult and mature teen audience don't matter anymore), even despite the fact that they would have to sabotage the entire film to do so. so instead of having an intense thriller that leaves you at the edge of your seat, you find yourself shifting in your seat out of boredom. The character development is so poor that you don't really care if anyone dies either (accept for the black girl). I felt like massive chunks of plot were left out or something because there is a scene where people stand up and riot, but that cuts out after 5 seconds and is never shown again, and that seems like its a key piece of plot...especially if there are sequels. its sad when the entire time, all i could imagine was Jean Claude Van Damm running through the woods in 'Hard Target' as he was being hunted down. whats even sadder is that that movie had better acting and character development LOL!