Could have been better

Rating: 5/10 (24 March 2012)

First of all, this is not an action movie, whoever said in his reviews that it had PULSE POUNDING ACTION either saw a different movie or is getting payed to lie to people.
Over half the movie is spent on the buildup to the games, some scenes drag on for a little too long, but the real disappointment is the games themselves; The whole premise of children being forced to kill each other and making impossible choices is missing, we had the typical evil "bully" contestants who didn't mind killing, almost everyone who doesn't get killed by bad guys just dies off-screen.
there is little to no struggle going on, after all the hype about survival skills and the importance of finding food and shelter and not getting detected we don't see any of those things in the film, just Katniss running around a lot, then the producer gets bored and throws fireballs at her or summons dogs to kill the last survivors to put the audience out of it's misery.