Hunger Games anyone?

[Lemmiwinks]

went to see this at the cinema after all the rave reviews and wondered why the hell did it get such positive reviews? It's a total rip-off of The Running Man and Battle Royale, there was almost nothing original in there! What the hell, movie critics don't watch old movies anymore??

[kiriyama]

Haven't seen it but you pretty much hit the nail on its head. I too was thinking about Battle Royale when I saw the trailer a few days ago. Some tasks require a Beat Takeshi to do it, and there doesn't seem to be any Beat at play here.

[Veracohr]

The story isn't exactly the filmmaker's fault, it already existed.

 

I haven't paid attention to any commentary on it, but I thought it was decent. True, nothing original, but not bad. For me, the bar is pretty low these days for Hollywood movies.

[needle ninja]

I almost went to see this...

The film clip I saw had a comment that the girl was naked in the scene in the book so apparently they changed a lot from the book which must have had some fans.

[Rotwang]

I saw it yesterday, and I enjoyed it. Don't go expecting Battle Royale with white people, go expecting a fun, smart film for kids and you'll have a good time.