The Hunger Games
Directed by Gary Ross
Two Stars
I have not read Suzanne Collins’ young adult book series,
“The Hunger Games”. Occasionally a film adaptation comes along that demands
this information up front from its critics. But the multiple failings of
director Gary Ross’s effort are not uniformly cinematic. They begin at the
basest levels of the narrative, and indeed the central premise of the film was
a pill I simply could not swallow.