Boobs and skimpy outfits aside (not much of that in the movie), it's pretty good. As dysfunctional future worlds go, this one is much easier to take than The Road and preferable to a zombie apocalypse. The allusions to the Roman gladiator world are a little heavy handed (names like Caesar, Claudius, Flavius and Octavia make it hard to miss) and the idea that all this is just around a couple corners from current reality TV culture oozes out of it. I also thought about The Truman Show.
Anyway, Jennifer Lawrence is excellent, in a role where she has to be even tougher than she was in Winter's Bone. The rest of the cast is as good as they need to be, but no better. As always, Stanley Tucci is good as Caesar Flickerman; he's one of our best, reliable character actors. I liked it.
