The Hunger Games (2012)
My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars
Not having read the books yet, I can't compare the media types, though my husband says they did a decent job overall. Very reminiscent of Battle Royale, though not as bloody, perhaps due to it's young adult audience. Of course Katniss has to survive to the end of the Hunger Games one way or another as it does not appear there would be a series without her. From the looks of things at the end though, there's trouble brewing both within her own conflicted love triangle and some powerful enemies she may have made in the government by ultimately refusing to play their game. She's won for now, but it definitely isn't over.