Its location is striking and beautiful to look at in this violent film balancing out its great scenery with dark subject matter. The deaths become more tragic as you find out a bit about everyone’s backstory and / or personality giving some level of impact when one of them dies. Some flaws I do have though is the ending probably tries a bit too hard to be bold and clever and tacks on a bit with social commentary that doesn’t feel explored enough at times as it focuses a bit too much on the violence.

Furthermore, cause this film has such a large number of characters not everyone is developed enough outside the main ones and is understandable given how big the cast is but wish it was twenty students rather than forty. This was a film I have been meaning to watch for a while and glad I did as it has a more mature tone and realistic themes that ‘The Hunger Games’ never went fully into making full use of its R rating. 

Overall Rating: 4/5