The Hunger Games

Skip dinner, pass on dessert, run to The Hunger Games which is playing on every screen at every theatre near you. You will be on the edge of your seat for the entire 2 hour & 20 minute spectacle. The film is set in a post-apocalyptic world where a tyrannical government stages an annual televised competition of  young people fighting to the death. The Hunger Games is Mad Max meets Gladiator at the Olympics. I am not usually a fan of young adult or series literature (and I use the term "literature" lightly). I have never read a Harry Potter, The Girl with..., or Twilight novel. Yet the marketing for this movie was brilliant and "reaped" my interest. Casting is terrific featuring Elizabeth Banks, Woody Harrelson, Stanley Tucci, Lenny Kravitz, and Donald Sutherland as the "President". Hunks Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth are sufficiently hot and easy on the eyes. Costumes and make-up are outrageous, Nazi-esque futuristic sets are wonderfully overdone, and even the multiplying hairless Rottweillers are original. Yet the movie belongs to the talented Jennifer Lawrence. Any of you who saw her in Winter's Bone knew she had talent. A heart pounding race from start to finish. Bring on Hunger Games 2, I'm starving for this type of original action film!