The movie was good, but the book was better. Back story and character development was absent from the movie that took up pages in the book. We went with a friend that hadn't read the book and he didn't understand how everything fit together at the end. The movie was good, you should go see it. But you should read the books first to get a better understanding of what was actually happening in the world of Panem. Two thumbs up for homicidal teenagers.