A very good movie

To be honest, it has been a while since I saw this flick and I should probably re-watch it at some point. First of all, when ‘The Hunger Games’ was released, many fans of this movie claimed that this new blockbuster starring Jennifer Lawrence was a huge rip-off of this cult-classic. Well, eventually, I did watch ‘The Hunger Games’ but, even though the 2 movies shared some elements, they were in fact vastly different in my opinion. Anyway, coming back to our main feature, of course, the plot was rather preposterous but there was definitely something quite spellbinding about the damned thing. One of the masterstroke was to have Takeshi Kitano playing the teacher and the guy was as usual pretty awesome. To be honest, I have to admit that the whole thing was slightly too over the top for my taste and I think it would have worked better if I would have been more straightforward. Anyway, they did make a sequel a few years later, I never saw it but since the ratings were really weak, I don’t think I did miss much. To conclude, it is now considered as a cult classic, it really deserves this status and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.