Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

nate-car I recently watched all four movies in a row, after watching them separately over the years... just in case I was missing something by not investing in the famous story and the entire epic as a whole. I now can't say I didn't try... Drab and depressing, I found all four Hunger Games movies missing almost all elements to make it memorable, enjoyable, fun, exciting, clever or 'epic' in any way. The concept from the get go made very little sense, the fictional world was not very well designed, and the rules of the universe weak and flimsy. I liked some of the cast and have been fans of several for years, but each character was hollow with very little true motivation, and the arks of their characters rarely moved beyond their first introduction. I actually lowered my stars scores after binge watching the series, because it seemed like a waste of time and the only thing it clearly indicated is, on my own personal scale '2 stars' means- "an ordinary movie that I don't want to and could not be easily convinced to ever watch again...". Which I have now given all four films.

Johnny H. The Hunger Games has become a household name in pop-cultural life, and this film is an entertaining introduction to a broadly-appealing yet well done dystopia not too far off the brutality of Battle Royale or The Running Man. It's not Twilight (thank Christ for that) and thankfully it's got a better romantic triangle than any of that vampire hogwash had going for it.This series is like a millennial-appealing take on other sci-fi dystopias ranging from George Orwell's 1984 to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World; where those stories explored totalitarianism in more subversive ways this one shows how extreme things can get when violence is thrown into the equation.Considering this came out in 2012 and people are STILL saying whether or not this ripped off Battle Royale I think that those addresses are fair, and that it doesn't suffer from the pre-established derivativeness of something like Divergent (which apparently carbon-copied the story so much the films themselves were distributed by Lionsgate/Summit Entertainment).Anyway, this film is an adaptation of a book that was craving a movie based on it, and it's a good action flick focusing on young men and women trying to survive the worst to-the-death scenario you could possibly imagine.

cinemajesty Movie Review: "The Hunger Games" (2012)Based on a novel from 2008 by U.S. American author Suzanne Collins, doing plenty of research on ancient mythology, reality TV and entertainer's game shows for this dystopian near-future thriller, which builds a proper cinematic mix from "Rollerball" (1975) over "Running Man" (1987) to "Battle Royal" (2000). The novel has been analyzed to the core by writer Billy Ray and director Gary Ross, who came out of 9-year-break after the Academy-Award-nominated film "Seabiscuit" from 2003.Actress Jennifer Lawrence gets cast in the role of Katniss Aberdeen, which will present her with a second career boost after the female-directed independent drama "Winter's Bone", premiering at Sundance Film Festival 2010. The physically-demanding character presents the actress with an life-time opportunity to learn the arts of survival techniques in the wild and Bow-shooting, leaving out knife and gun practice for the time being, when it comes to the reality TV combat zone in a forest scenario, created by show runner Seneca Crane, portrayed by out-going actor Wes Bentley, who gives the candidates of the 74th "Hunger Games" the hardest time with primitive weaponry, axe, sword-like metals and artificially-conceived arena features as striking fireballs, before the character of Katniss teams up with fellow competitor Peeta Mellark, given face by child actor-growing up Josh Hutcherson. Together they fight the system from the inside, playing the games of President Snow, in pitch-perfect resembles by actor Donald Sutherland, in 3 sequels to follow, when "Catching Fire" directed by Francis Lawrence already marks the most-accomplished one, until the hype, especially at the U.S. domestic market, got satisfied.Director Gary Ross delivers a solid motion picture adaptation from a Zeitgeist novel enriched with an extraordinary decisively dressed-up supporting cast as Stanley Tucci as the moderator, Elizabeth Banks as the recruiter, Lenny Kravitz as the designer and Woody Harrelson as the counselor, who turns Jennifer Lawrence into a realm of shifting pleasure dreams to hardboiled realities of a business, which the actress eventually masters five years later with the leading role in another independent drama "mother!" directed by Darren Aronofsky.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

zachiebetta Uses future dystopian society like a lot of other stories which is a great background to use but changes some things. They select two tributes from twelve districts male and female in between 12 and 18 to fight to the death in and arena due to rebellion against the capitol. Constantly entertaining with action. I understand making the movie PG- 13 since many kids read the book including me who was only 13 when the movie came out. They did a great job at making it PG-13 and keeping it to the story.