All that I expected but less.

Rating: 7/10 (24 November 2012)

This review is going to be short and written by a rookie.
I think it is very hard to review the movie once you have read the book, or at least objectively.
For me this movie seemed pretty loyal to the book, but of course many details had been cut. But if there had been possibility to make a 5-hour- movie, it could have been great.
In my opinion Jennifer Lawrence just nailed it by acting rebellious Katniss. I didn't like her at the movie ''Like Crazy'' at all but in this movie she seemed to be in her element. Also other cast supported the movie pretty well. Only Wes Bentleys act didn't make any impression. I just couldn't find the same feeling with him and the book's Seneca.
In the movies it is vital to be able to squeeze those hundreds of pages into a 2-hour-movie. This one didn't execute that perfectly, but I would still say: go see the movie, it was good.