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'The Hunger Game'

The drama books aimed at Teenagers is big business these days, with the Twilight franchise being the true testament to that, it is a very valuable market to make a movie in. Suzanne Collins a former writer for young children's shows in America, made the move to writing her own books and sprung the 'Hunger games' trilogy, which has made Collins one of the top selling authors in the world. So I guess it was inevitable the books would become more. But this is much more then Twilight.

Set somewhere in the future in a nation called 'Panem', a boy and a girl, known as "Tributes" are selected from each of the twelve districts to compete in a live television show called 'The Hunger Games', where they all fight to the death, and last boy or girl standing wins. Katniss Everdeen offers herself up to replace her younger sister, for the toughest battle of her life.

The story is a good piece of work, Suzanne Collins has written a suburb, gripping story, which seems like it's a bit of a social commentary on today's modern television culture, where reality rules our screens, and how much reality is enough.

Some lovely visual scenes are included, and with a film with a violent nature, you would expect more of the gore type of thing, but being a film for teenagers, it has been done very well on cut away moments, and fast camera work.

Jennifer Laurence (Katniss Everdeen) is a good talent, who's demand rate and stardom will rise dramatically for her performance. You wouldn't want to mess with her. Stanley Tucci, is seen in a different role here, as the games television host, that he plays very well and with confidence.

Go see it. I hate to mention it twice, but leave Edward, Bella and gang alone, and see a real, on the edge young persons drama, but strangely works very well for an adult audience as well.

4 out of 5