In the future as a punishment for some past rebellion, each year communities must send 2 chosen by lot to compete in a last man standing, kill or be killed free for all. You know what they call Hunger Games in Paris? Battle Royal with cheese. Basically this is Twilight meets Battle Royal with way too much vanilla dressing. Its not a total waste of time as some scenes are memorable (hallucination hornets anyone?) but I found it not only overly predictable but stale and cliched. I thought the Rodney King tie in was way over the top doing little more than reinforcing a negative stereotype. On the up side the 'pre-story' is decent and I liked the juxtaposition of a Metropolis style high tech society with the Russian style village living surviving on squirrels and rough bread.
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