Think a mash up of television shows Big Brother and Survivor and the movie The Truman Show, with many of the characters dressed with costumes straight out of The Grinch. It is understood that a synergistic projects give a result much greater than the sum of the parts. It could be argued that The Hunger Games miraculously achieves the exact opposite
The director Gary Ross equally manages to disguise a one hour story as a two hour and twenty-two minute film. The trailers do not show any of the 60minutes of faffing about training and attempting to create back stories for the protagonists and antagonists.
The only suspense for the audience is the wait to discover the accuracy of their predictions for the plot and sub plots, predictions made before the opening credits are complete.
The wasp scene is entertaining as was the ummm…the…ahhh…the camouflage make up.
Without even knowing that the studios have already committed to a trilogy this final scenes barely even attempt to draw this particular story to a conclusion. Instead it is all about creating the segue to and opening scenes of the second movie.
Wait for this to come out on DVD and just hope your friends do not buy it and force you to watch it over a few drinks on a wet Sunday afternoon.
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