An attempt to make an American Version of "Battle Royale"

Rating: 4/10 (26 March 2012)

This is almost a spin off from another movie. American audience is not familiar to "Battle Royale", a Japanese movie ( and "manga" 1999) made in 2000. What is this "Hunger Games"? It's a movie that picked up characters, story, main sequence of events and all the atmosphere from this Japanese movie. The oriental production is far better than this American Version. Anyone who watches the original movie will agree to that. That said, It is important to remark that, in the end, the result of "Hunger Games" was not so bad. But it was not good either.. American Motion Industry has been "copying" movies for some time ( terror movies, for example ) and many of them are a terrible facsimiles from the original. This time the copy was not so bad. They changed a bit the story ( although the main plot is still there ) and adapted it to the American audience. The result is a teens movie that is possible to watch. Unfortunately, a lot of the emotion and originality from "Battle Royale" was lost. I was in a bit of doubt between ranking it 5 or 6. I decided for 5, because I would say this movie is "as half as good" as "Battle Royale". Not bad, not good. Interesting for teenagers and kids.