The second Hunger Games film makes a good fist of adapting Suzanne Collins's weaker sequel, but it's really the heroine, Katniss Everdeen, who keeps the blood pumping
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – first look review
• Watch The Hunger Games: Catching Fire trailer
If the critics are to be believed, the latest Hunger Games movie, Catching Fire, is this year's Dark Knight, a smart and full-blooded blockbuster with a deliciously icy core. Francis Lawrence's film has a hugely impressive 95% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which would make it one of the year's best-reviewed major releases. Author Suzanne Collins, who wrote the trilogy of novels on which this saga is based, created a world that touched upon the insipid romance of the Twilight movies but was really far more interested in heroine Katniss Everdeen's fight for survival against a dystopian political powderkeg backdrop. All things considered, Lawrence has done a...
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – first look review
• Watch The Hunger Games: Catching Fire trailer
If the critics are to be believed, the latest Hunger Games movie, Catching Fire, is this year's Dark Knight, a smart and full-blooded blockbuster with a deliciously icy core. Francis Lawrence's film has a hugely impressive 95% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which would make it one of the year's best-reviewed major releases. Author Suzanne Collins, who wrote the trilogy of novels on which this saga is based, created a world that touched upon the insipid romance of the Twilight movies but was really far more interested in heroine Katniss Everdeen's fight for survival against a dystopian political powderkeg backdrop. All things considered, Lawrence has done a...
- 11/14/2013
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
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