The Hunger Games

This 2012 Action/Adventure/Sci-fi film was reminiscent of ‘Harry Potter’ and had elements of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and glimpses of the brilliant novel ‘Brave New World’ by Aldous Huxley. ‘The Hunger Games’ written by Suzanne Collins and screenplay adaption by Suzanne Collins, Billy Ray and by director of the film Gary Ross had all the key elements for making of a booming and thrilling teenaged movie. Backed by Lionsgate films and with a cool budget of $78 million dollars; it’s easy to see how it made back $672 million worldwide. Teenagers in love and teenagers fighting to the death is very ‘becoming’ right now! J

The intensely beautiful and talented Jennifer Lawrence stars in this film and plays the character Katniss Everdeen with wonderful grace; she is calm, focused and triumphantly believable. She plays alongside others like: Wes Bentley, Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, ‘too-sexy-for-his-own-good’ Lenny Kravitz, a barely recognizable Woody Harrelson and new-comer and uber-talented Amandla Stenberg who plays one of the youngest at battle ‘Rue’ from District 11.

With such support, talented cast and a vigorous budget it’s easy to see how well put-together this film was. Grand camera angles, fantastic lighting, splendid soundtrack, magnificent special effects, CGI and without a doubt, a seamless team-work in place, as continuity, story, dialogue and dramatic moments were all on point. Certainly recommended for pre-teens and teenagers; maybe not as stimulating for adults as the action happened mostly and was focused on that specific age-group from 12 to 18 years old. But I must say, it still makes for a cool night of fun! J