Very Disappointing!

Rating: 5/10 (7 February 2014)

I was a huge fan of the book about a group of kids who are forced to kill each other in a death match, but after watching the movie, I was immensely disappointed with the final result. Jennifer Lawrence was extremely excellent as Katniss, and there were some other good, solid acting throughout the picture, but the issue I had with this movie was that it lacked suspense, especially scenes in the arena. Instead of making the moments of slaughter shocking and suspenseful, the use of the shaky cam only dumbs it down to the point where you have no clue what's going on, even if I had already read the book. While I was disappointed by this movie, I am more optimistic about the sequels as there's different direction and there's no shaky cam.