'Most Dangerous Game' Update

Rating: Null/10 (16 October 2012)

Watched "Hunger Games" with a friend the other day and it was another slog through the underbrush. That's the way most films made for the younger set turn out these days - uninteresting stories accenting form over substance and with inferior acting. But, since they're aimed at unsophisticated audiences, hardly anyone notices.
This one is a variation on a theme that's been done many times in the past - humans hunted by other humans. This one has the requisite special effects and color process, sound modification, etc. but it is a joyless exercise with no heart at its core and no chemistry between the 'star-crossed lovers'.
"Hunger Games" is no better or worse than most other big budget pictures made nowadays that lead the viewer to expect more than what shows up on the screen. It benefits from a big publicity campaign, leading you to believe that P.T. Barnum was right.