The first movie in the franchise opened to generally positive reviews last March, but with . As if that weren't enough for young Katniss (newly anointed Best Actress winner Jennifer Lawrence), she's also burdened by the first sparks of a revolution against the oppressive President Snow (Donald Sutherland), and caught smack dab in the middle of a love triangle between her childhood sweetheart (Gale Hawthorne) and fellow Hunger Games survivor Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson). Of course, when Katniss learns of a sinister new twist to this year's battle royale, the Quarter Quell, she's forced to put all of that aside and fight for her life once more. Read on for a sampling of . For all this talk of fire, much of the new arena heavily involves water more than any other element, the recurring motif eventually evoking strong baptismal imagery (not to mention an off- screen rain of blood). The fact that an attack by a pack of angry monkeys feels intense rather than laughable in the wake of the first film's rabid dog creatures marks a due amount of commitment from the main players and effects teams alike. Reports indicating that Lionsgate wants to split the final Hunger Games novel, Mockingjay, into two movies leaked out nearly a year ago. Per usual, we’re just now getting studio confirmation that the Hunger Games movie. The Hunger Games captures the dramatic violence, raw emotion, and. View All The Hunger Games News. Critic Reviews for The. Despite new writers Simon Beaufoy and Michael Arndt adapting Collins' second novel, 'Catching Fire' is still frustratingly beholden to a structure identical to the first film. Female role models come and go, and Lawrence's Katniss is one of the better ones.
Katniss is clearly a Champion of the People, but there's no sanctimony or pretense of false modesty in the way Lawrence plays her. She gives the appearance of listening more than she talks, the opposite of what we usually get from today's feisty heroines. Somehow, Lawrence — even though her character is a proactive Diana the Huntress — makes thinking look more dynamic than reacting. Her eyes say lots of things: 'Get over yourself; ' 'I'm not buying this; ' and 'OK, show me.' But sometimes they also say, 'I don't know what I want.' Which guy, which path, which life? Lawrence is a movie star who's still believable as a girl. She's both on fire and in the process of becoming, and it's magnificent to watch. The rare sequel that surpasses its predecessor, 'Catching Fire' tackles head- on the repercussions of the events of 'The Hunger Games,' deepening Collins' cinematic mythology even as it proves that teen- lit is more than capable of tackling complex ideas. Lawrence made his name as the director of numerous high- profile, high- budgeted music videos and commercials, which might appear to be a good training ground for wrangling this high- profile, high- budgeted franchise. While a certain amount of bloat is unavoidable in a movie so beholden to fan expectations and blockbuster convention, Lawrence exhibits a simultaneous talent for fleetness and compression in dealing with the film's many moving parts.! A 'Matrix Reloaded'- like cliffhanger reminds that this is only the second installment out of four (good lord), but at least the flick leaves us with more than a tinge of interest in whom the odds will favor next.
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