Tuesday, 24 June 2014

The poorly explained games

The Hunger Games (2012)

Directed by Gary Ross this film based on the novel of the same name stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Woody Harrelson and Elizabeth Banks. In the future a 16 year old girl volunteers to take her younger sisters place in a battle to the death between representatives of different districts.

This film comes with a lot of hype but it never convinced me of the world it was trying to create or properly explained the status quo. I also thought it was a little weak that the protagonist was rarely the driving force, often following the ideas of others and mostly had the hard moral choices removed from her. The direction of the fight sequences was a little annoying when it came to hand to hand combat but otherwise it was a well made film with some decent performances.


3/5

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