Good Sequel But Leaves You Hanging

Rating: 8/10 (22 November 2013)

I saw "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire", starring Jennifer Lawrence-X- Men: First Class, The Bill Engvall Show-t.v.; Josh Hutcherson-Red Dawn- 2012, RV; Liam Hemsworth-The Expendables 2, The Last Song; Philip Seymour Hoffman-Moneyball, The Big Lebowski and Donald Sutherland- Horrible Bosses, Reign Over Me.
This is the second in the series that is based on a book trilogy about young people fighting to the death in an annual series of games. The third book will be made into two movies, a part 1 & part 2. Jennifer and Josh return as the latest champions who won the 74th annual Hunger Games. Just like a Miss America Pageant winner, they are paraded around the country side on a victory tour. Liam is still the true love of Jennifer back home, but she has to act like she is in love with Josh and promote the propaganda for the President, Donald, or face stiff consequences-he threatens to kill her family, friends and even the whole district that she is from, if she does not cooperate. Philip takes the newly vacant job of being the games controller. Donald had the last one killed for his incompetence in letting Jennifer survive the last games. Donald wants Jennifer dead because he fears that the peasants will start a rebellion if they have too much hope in her. It was a pretty good sequel except for the ending; it just stops suddenly, which I know was probably their intention in setting up the next installment. It's rated "PG-13" for violence and language and has a running time of 2 hours & 26 minutes. I enjoyed it and would buy it on Blu-Ray.