A Fantastic Film: Fixing The Parts Of The Book I Disliked *Must Watch*

Rating: 10/10 (16 December 2013)

This will probably be one of the shortest reviews I ever write. This isn't a fault of the movie it's just I could some it up with one word AWESOME!!!... The acting? AWESOME!!!.... The Plot? AWESOME!!!... What about the special effects? AWESOME!!!... and this can be said about all the separate parts of this movie. I could leave it there but I will probe a little deeper into why I thought this film so good.
It is probably worth noting that being a male, in his mid-twenties, I am probably not the typical "Target Audience" if the film is aimed at the same audience as the book then we could assume that this is aimed at young adults and probably swinging over to the female population more than the male. However I thoroughly enjoyed the first film and the second just blew me away.
I think this is probably the best book to movie ADAPTION I have ever seen. Yes a say adaption because things have been adapted. Having read the book, I noticed straight away that the introduction to the film was different and there were a few other key points which had been adapted however I do not feel this was a bad thing. For my taste (and this probably goes back to the target audience thing) I found the books played too heavily on the love triangle between Katniss, Peeta and Gale, and in fact I felt this rubbed of badly on Katniss as a character!(and bored the socks of me for pages and pages) however I felt the film really played the love triangle down almost making it seem more like a "work" relationship and an "emotional" relationship and even the blurring of these lines by the end of the film seemed much more realistically portrayed in the film. After all when Katniss and Peeta have been through so much I'm sure we would all be a little confused around our feelings. I feel although this will probably upset the die hard fans of the books, it was a great way to make the film appeal to a wider audience or at least keep a wider audience happy!especially as by making these small changes the essence of the book wasn't lost. the heart of it was still there :)
Fans of the first film with love catching fire, it widens our understanding of the world and 12 districts, it brings a new and exciting adaption to the games and it gives us an exciting glimpse into how the world might change in the next instalment that all who have seen this film will be waiting for with anticipation.