Virag's Movie Reviews: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

I know they spent a shitload more money on this thing, but I'm not sure it shows.  Once again, the interesting stories are not told, and we are stuck following the least likable and least interesting of the parts.  It is still hard to suspend disbelief and have the people in the movie living in such a purportedly brutal and violent milieu without blood, swearing, passion, or sex.  Katniss and Peeta and Gale are in their late teens, facing death, and yet they comport themselves like bizarrely immature oversized fourth graders.  An even passingly realistic Hunger Games flick would look like something of a mashup of Quentin Tarantino and Sam Peckinpah making a movie in 1971.  Definitely not for the kiddoes, and definitely not a cash cow.  The funnest thing in this film was Donald Sutherland looking like a hungry version of John Entwistle.