The Hunger Games Review (2012)

The Hunger Games

 
  Being a HUGE fan of the books, I was very very excited for this movie. Was it everything I wanted it to be? To a certain degree. What I really liked about this film was Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen. She gives a really strong performance and is very memorable in this role. 

  The script was great and the music was quite lovely. They kept the movie a lot closer to the book than most film adaptations do, but it was missing just a few things. I felt Josh Hutcherson's line delivery as Peeta wasn't the best and that some of the characters (Cato for instance) were portrayed more shallow than they actually were in the book. 

  Because of reading the books before seeing this movie, I saw the places where they could have taken it up to the next level and didn't and for that reason it was somewhat disappointing. Is this a bad film? Absolutely not! It manages to portray the powerful moments beautifully but just needed work on some of the less powerful. Katniss and Peeta's relationship seemed forced at some points in the film, but maybe that is how they intended it in order to show how Katniss doesn't love Peeta the way he loves her. It's hard to tell considering the fact that we were in Katniss' mind the entire book series and she explains everything to us. 

  Overall, this movie was a big success and I give it a 4.5 out of 5 rating. (I'd Buy It)