Well, it does actually deserve an 8

Rating: 8/10 (27 March 2012)

Sure, it does. The concept of the movie isn't anything new, more of the same storyline or a mixture of themes of the movie Death Race, Spy kids, a little of the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire- yeah, teens forced to battle at life-threatening conditions to survive for a cause. If you haven't read the book like me, you'll find that the same popular concept has been brilliantly executed in a unique way, thereby making it special from the currently releasing movies,and hence allowing one to easily give it a rating of 8. I'd say that it is one of the very few movies where the futuristic world, though transformed with high-end technology, still has the poor whose lives aren't changed a bit. This contrasts scenes of the movies where the rich live in the future.