The Hunger Games 2012 Movie Review

The Hunger Games is a thrilling and somewhat disturbing film about a survival-of-the-fittest reality show – and despite its highly improbable premise, it makes for enjoyable viewing.It’s far more engaging than the Twilight films to which it’s been compared.…..Read Full Review

Thrilling and superbly acted, The Hunger Games captures the dramatic violence, raw emotion, and ambitious scope of its source novel.…..Read Full Review

Again and again Katniss rescues herself with resourcefulness, guts and true aim, a combination that makes her insistently watchable, despite Mr. Ross's soft touch and Ms. Lawrence's bland performance......Read Full Review

The expectations are pretty high on this one. No prizes for guessing why. The Hunger Games, the movie, is based on the bestselling young adult novel by Suzanne Collins.It's actually Jennifer's preparation for the big game that holds your attention as she pits against some highly-trained tributes who have prepared for these Games since time immemorial.
For the rest, there are swords, bows and arrows, knives, deadly bees, dense forests, computerized beasts multiplied by the click of a mouse, tree climbing, balls of fire, fire fashion statements, do or die instincts, a (not-so-happening) romantic plot......Read Full Review

The Hunger Games has epic spectacle, yearning romance, suspense that won't quit and a shining star in Jennifer Lawrence.....Read Fulll Review

Gary Ross, who directed Seabiscuit, manages to get this nag out of the starting gate and across the finish line with no major blunders, but without much in the way of inspiration, either......Read Full review

The Hunger Games is an effective entertainment, and Jennifer Lawrence is strong and convincing in the central role...…Read Full Review

A film that transforms a popular work of teen fiction not just by faithfully exploring its themes but, more important, by proving those themes have a very grown-up resonance……Read Full Review

The Hunger Games is a very enjoyable futurist adventure, presented with a compelling, beady-eyed intensity. There's a tang of satire in this televised survival-contest thriller that allows it to outrun the Twilight comparisons…..Read Full Review

One of the best things about Hunger Games are the performances. Jennifer Lawrence’s sincere portrayal of Katniss; a girl who is tough, feisty yet kind-hearted and fiercely protective of those she loves is spot on. Hunger Games is well made and a 'bloody' good way to spend your weekend.....Read Full Review

RIDING on the stupendous success of Suzanne Collins's trilogy, The Hunger Games has a launchpad ready from where to take off running. What it does is slow down, crawl and in a story so ripe for visual reproduction, inexplicably, grind to a tiresome halt.....Read Full Review