Review – The Hunger Games

I liked this better than I thought I would. But then I assumed I was going to hate it – as I often do with over-hyped blockbusters – so liking it more than I thought I would isn’t exactly the same as liking it. For anyone reading this review sometime in the glorious future when it’s once again possible to not know anything about the whole Hunger Games thing, it’s set in a dystopian society that forces its districts to send children to die fighting in the eponymous contest. To the picture’s credit, it keeps up a decent pace and manages to make some relevant points about media hype and disregard for the value of human life. Still, it covers little ground not already trampled by The Running Man. By using kids, however, the show overplays its hand and moves from poignant to slightly ridiculous. Mildly amusing