The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Rating 8 out of 10

I can't remember a movie that was so hard to see.  Opening weekend I tried twice to see it to find it sold out of a theater showing Catching Fire on three screens.  We got to the theater at 225p for a 3p movie on a Tuesday to find it sold out again.  We bought our tickets then to the 6p showing and finally got in.  Lucky for us the movie was worth the wait.

This of course is the second in a series of three movies based on the best selling books by Suzanne Collins.  In a recap of Hunger Games I: North America has been split into twelve districts.  They are run by a the evil President Snow in the Capitol.  Every year they have a fight to the death contest with one male and one female from each district with the winner gaining extra food of their district.  The lovely Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and the male from her District 12, Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) won by refusing to kill the other one instead choosing for death together by poison berries.

In Catching Fire the evil President Snow (Donald Sutherland) is worried that Katniss is the key to an overthrow decides that the next Hunger Game will be between all the past winners including Katniss and Peeta.

There is more action in Catching Fire than the first one, but as before the violence is done in a PG-13 sort of way.  The acting is good and effects are better.  I like this movie alot.  Even if you didn't see the first Hunger Games movie you will enjoy this one on it's own.