Insulted as a viewer

Rating: 2/10 (24 March 2012)

I've just seen this at the cinema and about 30 minutes from the end we have a change of rules that made me want to stand up and ask the audience if they were really prepared to accept what had just happened. It made me angry that I was expected to go along with it. The film has a lazy pace and if an hour had been trimmed off the running time maybe I could have left a little more satisfied. The build up to the "game" is acceptable if it was to be topped off with some interesting and tense exchanges between the competitors - instead of that it gets increasingly dull. I came to this with no knowledge of the book and wonder why there is such a fuss, and how there can be any suggestion of this being a franchise. It left me completely cold