not worth such a high rating

Rating: 3/10 (2 May 2012)

I have not read the books. I went to the movie understanding only little of the story and let the movie unfold without prior knowledge of the story based on the book. The movie is disappointing. The first half is long, uninteresting and for the most part boring. Establishing the concept of why there are hunger games could have been done in five minutes. Once the game part commenced, the story was predictable, anyone who is a movie goer would be three steps ahead of the action. Perhaps the movie is geared to a young audience, one where the movie makers think that they have little experience in watching movies, for everyone else this is a Sunday night movie rental.