MOVIE REVIEW: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

After seeing the second installment, the hotly anticipated The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, my gut feeling is that they are saving their best for their swan song and not the middle. While the budget and star power have increased with success and maturity from the comparatively modest first film 20 months ago, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire does not do enough to achieve that level of being a great middle trilogy film on the same scale as The Empire Strikes Back orThe Dark Knight.

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MOVIE REVIEW: The Hunger Games

With all of the brilliant hype and buzz generated by the novel's wild success, I was expected gravitas and pathos, something on the level of Harry Potter or The Lord of the Rings. What I got was a romance worthy of Water for Elephants and shallower kid version of The Running Man if it was run by the TV people of The Truman Show.