Film Review: The Hunger Games

This is number two of my Hunger Games reviews today and will be looking at the highly anticipated film. This blog follows on from my book review, which if you are unsure what The Hunger Games is, has a brief synopsis on and more details of the story. Due to having written this information already in this first blog I don't think I'll repeat it here, so if you want go check out that blog first then come back here.

The film The Hunger Games was released yesterday on Friday the 23rd of March, however I found that I was exceedingly lucky as my local cinema (which usually takes ages to get hold of films) actually had an advanced screening on thursday evening. Needless to say I jumped at the chance to see this film early, with the added bonus that I can now say I was one of a small number to see it before the rest of the country.

Going into this film my one main worry was that they would not stick to the events as featured in the book and not do the book justice, however I feel now that that worry has been put to rest. In this respect, I couldn't help but compare this film to the harry potter films, to compare which best reflected their original books. For me I felt that this film did an amazing job at capture the events and important scenes of the book. Obviously as the film was only two hours long not everything could be included, however I still feel they managed to keep all of the essentials, and at the same to were able to fill the audience in on the need to know details in-between.

As I was intending to read the book first, I made a point of not watching any of the trailers or snippets of film footage, so that I could create my own images of Panem and of the characters. In this respect I also felt the film was a success, from the look of district 12 to Cinna's styling of Katniss and Peeta at the opening ceremony, and especially when capturing the main characters, more specifically Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss.

From other reviews I've heard of so far about this film, they tend to say that its is an excellent film, but is even better if the viewer has first read the book, and I would tend to agree with that. Naturally if you've read the book then seen the film, you have more background knowledge going in with you. However don't let that discourage anyone from seeing it.
This is in fact another reason why I feel the film was so strong and a success, because on its own without knowledge from the book, it still held its own, and made complete sense, and so can be enjoyed by all. Having that knowledge from the books is more of an added bonus on an already amazing film.

Although I anticipate cinemas will be packed for the next few weeks with people eager to see this film, I do highly suggest going and seeing it. Its not everyday that such an amazing films as this is released.
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