As good as the book

Rating: 9/10 (29 November 2013)

This movie is true to the original book, but yet still somehow adds something that the book cannot provide. The cinematography is beautiful. When you watch the movie, you truly feel like you're in the future—the *real* future. Everything is pretty much the same as it is today, except oddly grungy as things have actually regressed in many ways, and people in some districts live more primitively, yet the signs of future technology are there. In this way, I feel the treatment of the future is very realistic. The cast is excellent. Jennifer Lawrence is beautiful as always. Woody Harrelson is at his best—could have stood seeing more of him. All the rest of the cast meets or exceeds their performances in the first Hunger Games movie. The movie is action packed and suspenseful. I would have given it a perfect 10 if the ending had been stronger. As this is based on the second book in a trilogy, the ending is not as satisfying as I would like, and serves mostly to give us a hing of what's coming in part three. But mostly this movie was excellent.