Series 7: The Contenders Clone?

Rating: 6/10 (9 April 2012)

If you want to see where the spawn of The Hunger Games may have come from see "Series 7: The Contenders". Roger Ebert's provides a good review of the film. Don't believe one was better than the other. Both were about a 6/10 for me. The Hunger Games was just better marketed and less philosophical. A real summer blockbuster one could say. I could have a used a lot more of the philosophical and political underpinning for the games existence. Not sure there would be a logical reason for the games other than to sell movies tickets to the mob. Liked Clove, about it. Most of the remaining parts of the film very fairly predictable.