Based on the best selling novel by Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games are based in Panem (what is left of North America) where the 12 districts offer up one boy & one girl as tributes to take part in the televised show, The Hunger Games. It focuses on the main character Katniss Everdeen, who offers herself up as tribute in place of her sister and of course the games themselves.
For those that have read the book, you may be left disappointed. It features mainly the key events of the book with most of the film being based around the games themselves. There have been additional little scenes added such as seeing the ‘control room’ for the games to flesh out the film. Unlike the book which has you from the start, the film is slow. If you’ve not read the book, then maybe you won’t be too disappointed.
Maybe because the book is written from the perspective of Katriss and in the first person, it doesn’t lend itself to well to adaption. Or maybe it’s because in the same sort of time frame, Peter Jackson managed to get much more of the Lord Of The Rings books in than this does of it’s respective book. I would be interesting to see if the film was better with the scenes that were removed before it was allowed a 12A certificate here in the UK.
Rating: 3.5/5
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