The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has that awkward prospect of being a middle part of a trilogy, it therefore doesn’t have its own ending and it has to be bigger and darker than the first part.
I did enjoy it more than its predecessor. Everyone feels more in peril and there is much more at stake this time round. It takes an hour and a half before we get to the new arena, but this set up time is needed. Life sucks whether your in the hunger games or stuck in a coal mining town. Not that I have to be told that, I’ve been to Pontypridd.
A slightly larger cast of characters this time round. The standout being Jena Malone, she is perfect here as the sarcastic and angry Johanna Mason, overcoming the image I had in my head of a sarcastic and angry Kristen Bell (season one Veronica Mars). You can even see hints of character development from the secondary characters like Effie and Katnisses sister, which are unusually subtle for a big movie like this.
Jennifer Lawrence is great, definitely the main reason The Hunger Games is so successful. You can’t help but watch and feel what she feels. Perhaps there is an overuse of the shocked facial expression while hitting her fist on an invisible wall and shouting Peeta. But its her emotive responses, her survival instincts and how she looks so pretty on fire in that chariot, that makes her such a good heroine.
Oh one other thing, did anyone else find the scene when they crawl towards the boil healing water on all fours while moaning a bit wrong or was it just me?
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