Mid Series Set-up

Rating: 7/10 (23 March 2015)

This is my critique of the film adaptation of book 2 of The Hunger Games. In a lot of ways it were better to say that the book was the inspiration for Catching Fire the movie. Strangely Gale gets more air time here than he did in the first movie though he barely figures in the book. The Gamemaker's character is written in to move the story along. Alliances are played up and Finnick has a much expanded role, was there a need to provide a strong character to support Katniss and match her strength pushing the wimpy Peetah to the background. This time round most of the killings occur off-screen their occurrence marked by the cannon shots. Much is implied and fore-shadowed in this middle movie of the series. In a lot of ways it sets the scene for the epic battle to come.