An interesting idea mash-up of 1984, Lord of the Flies, Logan's Run, reality shows in general, with (good) special effects, albeit the ones you see all the time from Sci-Fi films realised in the US.
The plot: in the future, the Government holds a yearly contest among forcibly chosen youngsters from different conquered towns. They are shortly trained and later released in a small woods area with minimum equipment, letting them kill each other. The whole series of events is transmitted to the population on TV. The winner will take... well, I think nobody knows what he or she will win. I am not even sure if it is food, given the obscure name of the movie.
Even though the plot has some freshness to it, the movie stumbles constantly with horrendous clichés. It takes only three seconds from some scenes to know who the bad guys and the heroes/heroines will be and who are going to be only cannon-fodder. Lots of coarsely sketched characters, with whom you don't feel related to at all.
The mix between digital and real is confusing: digital monsters which can be harmed with real weapons? Digital fire which can burn the skin? Meh...
There's also plot loopholes a plenty, as well as illogical, poorly- explained or hard-to-believe situations: the inhabitants of a starving town seem to be completely attentive facing TV screens, even though they've been running then for several days, instead of working in order for them to get food. At the mere signal of the heroine on the screen, they start fighting the guards, even though they didn't lift a finger when the kids were taken away to be slaughtered. -_-
The film is not particularly bad, but it's also no big deal. As an additional frustrating detail, this seems to be only the first part of many. Go watch it only if you don't have anything better to do. If you are into WOW, THOSE ARE INCREDIBLE SPECIAL FX and that's what you normally care about from the movies, then you're in for a treat.
The plot: in the future, the Government holds a yearly contest among forcibly chosen youngsters from different conquered towns. They are shortly trained and later released in a small woods area with minimum equipment, letting them kill each other. The whole series of events is transmitted to the population on TV. The winner will take... well, I think nobody knows what he or she will win. I am not even sure if it is food, given the obscure name of the movie.
Even though the plot has some freshness to it, the movie stumbles constantly with horrendous clichés. It takes only three seconds from some scenes to know who the bad guys and the heroes/heroines will be and who are going to be only cannon-fodder. Lots of coarsely sketched characters, with whom you don't feel related to at all.
The mix between digital and real is confusing: digital monsters which can be harmed with real weapons? Digital fire which can burn the skin? Meh...
There's also plot loopholes a plenty, as well as illogical, poorly- explained or hard-to-believe situations: the inhabitants of a starving town seem to be completely attentive facing TV screens, even though they've been running then for several days, instead of working in order for them to get food. At the mere signal of the heroine on the screen, they start fighting the guards, even though they didn't lift a finger when the kids were taken away to be slaughtered. -_-
The film is not particularly bad, but it's also no big deal. As an additional frustrating detail, this seems to be only the first part of many. Go watch it only if you don't have anything better to do. If you are into WOW, THOSE ARE INCREDIBLE SPECIAL FX and that's what you normally care about from the movies, then you're in for a treat.