That's most apparent in the clarity of the action, but it also extends to how efficiently the film establishes so many new ensemble members. Since then, her win has managed to spark unrest and rebellion within the districts.Įverything that felt clumsy in The Hunger Games has been improved upon here. It's a twist devised by the scheming President Snow (Donald Sutherland) and the head of the games (Philip Seymour Hoffman) to allow them to kill off both Katniss and her revolutionary image it was her defiance of the rules, remember, that determined the outcome of her first Hunger Games. While the new movie does feature another iteration of Panem's annual bloodsport, most of the competitors are adults this time, with entrants culled from past victors instead of children from each district. The focus turns in Catching Fire, though, from the disturbing notion of kids killing kids in a gladiatorial competition to the direct violence of totalitarian governments. The third point of the movie's love triangle, Katniss' hunting partner Gale Hawthorne (Liam Hemsworth), remains stranded in District 12 without as much to do as the other two. Director Francis Lawrence holds the victim unflinchingly at the center of the frame, and we're spared seeing the full impact of an execution-style bullet to the head only by a closing door.
That's the post-apocalyptic future America in which a wealthy, technologically advanced Capitol squeezes labor and resources out of 12 subjugated districts through force and fear. It's the first significant bloodshed in the film, a scene in which the young heroine Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) is made to fully realize the capability for cruelty inherent in the government of Panem.
There's a moment of chilling violence in Catching Fire, the second of four planned movies adapting Suzanne Collins' dystopian Hunger Games novels, a moment in which the difference a director makes becomes immediately clear - and one that should give hope to readers who might have felt some disappointment with the first movie. With: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Donald Sutherland Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, some frightening images, thematic elements, a suggestive situation and language.
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