The Hunger Games : Catching Fire (2013) 7/10

Starring : Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jeffrey Wright, Stanley Tucci, Donald Sutherland
Director : Francis Lawrence
Running Time : 147 mins

Katniss Everdeen (Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Hutcherson) are forced to go on tour to promote the Hunger Games, but President Snow (Sutherland) is worries that her apparent defiance a year earlier may be rubbing off on the general public. In order to stop this, he enacts a right known as the Quarter Quell, by which the rules of the Games can be changed every twenty-five years, and he forces previous winners to take part in the games again.

This doesn’t have as much of the action of the first movie, with the beginning section primarily focussing on how the dictatorship under which the characters live is manipulating events to their own ends, but strangely this actually worked better for me. This proved that Suzanne Collins was willing to explore the characters and the world she’s writing about, and didn’t just rehash the first book. Granted, the ending is similar to the first instalment, with the Games under full flow, but the ending shows that those involved in the plot are far deeper characters than you might first imagine.

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