Mark's mini movie review: The Hunger Games

Given the complete disdain for human life historically shown by governments and institutions sooner or later The Hunger Games will be a documentary. It is dark, but not dark enough, could have a sharper edge, but is well made and most entertaining. Whether or not the future will see some of America looking like The Grapes of Wrath and some of it spray painted by Gaultier on an acid trip remains to be seen. The potential self reflexive irony of The Hunger Games as the Hunger Games is in no certain way totally ignored. Then again, they did the same in The Running Man (but with Lycra)                       7/10