The Giver
U/A; Sci-Fi
Dir: Phillip Noyce
Cast: Meryl Streep, Jeff Bridges

It’s coming to a point where one can’t help but roll one’s eyes, groan and moan at Hollywood’s completely senseless attempts at cash grabs. While watching The Giver, there is only one thing that you feel – that you’re watching yet another young adult sci-fi movie. The young adult sci-fi genre has been a big success thanks to The Hunger Games’ films. While those movies aren’t as such terrible, mainly thanks to Jennifer Lawrence, every other film that has tried to ape it, has failed miserably. We’ve seen Divergent and it was less than spectacular. The Mortal Instruments was not only not spectacular, but also absolutely awful. I Am Number Four was atrocious as well. Now we have The Giver, which is just another retread in the dystopian sci-fi area filled with heroic teens.