FAM Movie Review : The Hunger Games (2012)

Genre : Sci-Fi | Action | Thriller

Our Rating : 7/10

Director : Gary Ross

Cast : Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth

The Hunger games Directed by Gary Ross is a engaging Sci-Fi Action Thriller based on Suzanne Collins's popular series of American novels called young adults Plot revolves around Katniss Everdeen ( Jennifer Lawrence ) a young girl in 20's who is chosen for 74th annual Hunger games league which is a survival of fittest reality game show where only one Contender emerges alive as a winner . Set forth in the near future , Its about the citizens of Panem's 12 suffering districts where two individual from both sex in every district between 16-24 age are chosen by a lot system and sent to Capital State where the president would host a game titled Hunger Games every year. There are total of 24 people male 'n' female individuals who are sent to a killing zone and are made to fight each other till death .The Games are a punishment invented by the Capitol of Panem for the 12 districts whose rebels fought against Capitol rule which was crushed more than 74 years ago .So to aviod war , prevail peace these games are hosted every year by the President -Capital of Panem , which is more or less a indirect mode of punishing the people from the districts for their uprising.

Katniss is from District 12 , she volunteers to the game when her young sister was selected from the lot to participate in 74th annual hunger games. Katniss is good with using bow 'n' arrow , lives in a village where people are deprived , poor whose main source of food is hunting. She along with her male counterpart Peeta Mellark ( Josh Hutcherson ) travel to the capital to face the much stronger representatives from other districts. All the members are greeted well with a VIP Treatment and they are trained there with survival skills for a span of four days before they are taken to the actual fighting zone which is a dense forest completely monitored and everything inside the forest controlled by a control room under the supervision of Seneca ( Wes Bentley ) . What happens during the training days , Will they survive the game , Love blossoms between Peeta and Katniss but only one can come out alive , who will sacrifice for their love , How well Kaitniss use her archery skill to come across the strong odds will be the finishing part of the movie.

Though The hunger games doesn't create a huge attention in Box office , its definitely a very good entertaining movie from start to end. Gary Ross definitely did the best bringing out a movie with hardly no or few logic errors and the CG Works definitely deserves a applause. Screenplay was so good that you will be surprised to note that you are almost at end of the movie , Runs in a gradual phase and never felt dragged. Though it involves Gladiatorial fights and killing , it doesn't create a sense of uneasiness in watching it and care was taken to avoid most of graphic contents which can impact the viewers and making it viewable to audience of any age. Thus said it did not effect the movie in anyway. It was Kaitniss allover and she takes the movie on her shoulder totally. Definitely awesome performance by Jennifer and as well all the crew who worked in this movie.

FAM Punch Line : Its not too best in its genre , but that said its not underrated too. This movie is definitely watchable and for sure would satisfy audience who like sci-fi action flicks. The important thing is that the movie will not drag itself through its long run leaving the audience with a pleasant experience worth spend of their valuable time. Try it and have fun. A Must watch in High Def.