Dystopian but no fear

Rating: 6/10 (27 August 2019)

This second chapter rewrites more or less the first one, with an apocalyptic fights in the arena. As in the first one, the quality of this saga is in the group of specific symbols and atmospheres that are those of a well defined universe. But this good elements are not at the service of a well done narrative development, that goes without an anxious feeling that instead should be in a dystopian world like this. Characters reactions are not guided by serious fears or sorrows and all the protagonists results static: the interesting dystopian place described is not impregnated by a terrible feeling that instead we have to expect. In this second movie, moreover, the love plot is more presented but, for the same reasons now expressed, it sounds artificial and moralistic, without a real deraglement of the feelings in a horrible situation like the Hunger Games one. Terribly overrated, as the first one.