What will hunger games catching fire be rated

I did eventually see the movie and found it to be a good one so realistic that it seemed redundant. The sequel continues the story, showing how Panem's rulers feel threatened by Katniss's popularity among the oppressed populations and try to co-opt her. One scene in particular looks exactly like something out of Coliseum games in ancient Rome.

His portrayal of the dynamic Plutarch Heavensbee shows him to have been one of the greatest actors of his generation. While this movie is not a masterpiece, I still recommend it. I'll be eager to see the next two installments. The first film based on the popular three part book series was as I expected a big deal, thankfully it was not cheesy and lame like the Twilight saga, and from the trailer and highly positive reviews I was looking forward a lot to the follow up, from director Francis Lawrence Constantine, I Am Legend, Water for Elephants.

Basically in the dystopian future world of Panem, a year after surviving the 74th Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen Silver Lining Playbook's Jennifer Lawrence and Peeta Mellark Josh Hutcherson are required to take the victory tour in the country, starting home in District 12, President Coriolanus Snow Donald Sutherland says that their romance inspired the district rebellions.

The President wants Katniss to convince everyone of their actions, the threatened suicide together, was because of love, and that they still love each other very much, but she cannot help but still be haunted by the memories of young Rue Amandla Stenberg from District 11 who she tried to protect, and anyone who whistles the signal she called and holds their hands up in the three-finger salute will be punished by death. Mentor Haymitch Abernathy Woody Harrelson says that this "act" of love they have is going to have to continue for the rest of their lives, and Katniss is the one who has to announce an engagement at a party, but returning home she also warns close friend Gale Hawthorne Liam Hemsworth, Chris's brother that President Snow has threatened to kill their families, he winds up punished by whipping after attacking a Peacekeeper, part of a group in District 12 cracking down.

Snow next announces Panem's third Quarter Quell, a special 75th Hunger Games event, it happens every twenty five years and sees previous victors compete again as tributes, Katniss, being the district's only female games survivor is first chosen, and Haymitch is the second, but as predicted Peeta offers himself to take his place, and they are both sent immediately to training without being able to see their loved ones to say goodbye.

Katniss is ready on the platform to enter The Hunger Games, she is forced to watch friend Cinna Lenny Kravitz beaten before leaving, and entering she allies with District 4 players Finnick Odair Sam Claflin and elderly Mags Lynn Cohen , and after Peeta is shocked and made unconscious for a moment they realise they are trapped by an invisible forcefield.

The next thing they know a strange fog comes in, and they find it is poisonous when hideous puss boils develop on their skin, they run from it but cannot escape it, until Mags sacrifices herself, allowing Finnick to carry and save a revived but weak Peeta, and when the fog disappears they find that the painful sores can be removed with the water of the lake. Following some rest, when sunlight rises they are surrounded by apes, they turn out to be savage and murderous and the group run for their lives again, Peeta is saved again when a drug addict and camouflage expert sacrifices herself, it is when they reach the shore and beach that they meet intelligent District 3 tributes Wiress Pulp Fiction's Amanda Plummer and Beetee Casino Royale's Jeffrey Wright , and female tribute Johanna Mason Jena Malone from District 7.

They find that the centre of the area is shaped like a giant clock, each hour represents the next attack, like the fog and apes, they will face, President Snow watching them realises what they know and spins the clock to stop them working out the correct hours, and in doing this Wiress is killed, the tributes do however remember the tree that continually has lightning strike it, they plan to use the electrical surge on the next strike.

Using a wire and electrocution they kill Brutus Bruno Gunn and Enobaria Meta Golding from District 2 and outside the alliance, the wire snaps and Johanna attacks Katniss, removing from her hand the tracking device they all carry, and unable to find Peeta at the tree Katniss uses the remaining wire, attaches it to her arrow and fires into the above forcefield, the next lightning strike destroys the arena.

In the end Katniss wakes up with the unconscious Beetee, and she finds Haymitch, Finnick, and the head gamekeeper Plutarch Heavensbee Philip Seymour Hoffman , who is rebelling against Snow, Johanna and Peeta have been taken by the Capitol, she is angry that Haymitch did not protect him as promised, Katniss is sedated by Plutarch and wakes up days later with Gale next to her, he tells her that her family is safe, but District 12 has been destroyed. Lawrence again proves herself a capable and fantastic actress being feisty and fascinating, Hutcherson gets his moments trying to convince everyone of their possibly actually real relationship, Sutherland gets a little more time on screen and proves a mean bastard, and many of the supporting cast members such as Banks, Hoffman and Tucci do well also.

I was surprised to see the critics giving this five out of five stars, but it absolutely deserves it, it has better special effects, the potential love story develops a bit more, the chase and death sequences are more exciting, the song "Atlas" by Coldplay in the end credits is good, and fans of the books and high octane kind of films will not be disappointed, a fantastic futuristic action thriller. Very good! Tweekums 18 February After the events of the first Hunger Games film Katniss and Peeta have returned home to District Twelve but as victors they have an obligation to go on a tour; visiting the other districts before heading to the capital.

As they travel Katniss notices a feeling of rebellion amongst the people; President Snow has noticed it too and he sees Katniss as the person who gave people the belief that they could stand up to the Capital thanks to her behaviour in the games. He decides that she must die but first he must stop the people loving her to avoid making her a martyr.

As Katniss is the only female winner from District 12 she is guaranteed to compete again. Once again Peeta ends up fighting alongside her and once in the game they make allies to defend against the more dangerous competitors but they know alliances can't last and there are other dangers that could kill them just as easily as the other competitors.

Having enjoyed the previous film I was wondering how they would build on that story without being repetitive. No time is wasted explaining what went before so one definitely needs to watch the first film before watching this. We are quickly reminded of the hardships of living in the districts and of the brutality of the authority in the capital. Once the game starts the tension inevitably rises and even though one can guess Katniss will survive one can't help fearing for her safety and that of her friends.

The ending is also quite different; her method of survival is different and obviously sets things up for the next instalment of the story with a twist that I didn't see coming. Jennifer Lawrence continues to do a fine job as Katniss and while the characters of the other competitors aren't as well developed that doesn't mean they are boring; in fact they have to remain a bit of a mystery if we aren't to know if they can be trusted.

Nasty President Snow Donald Sutherland isn't very happy with Katniss Jennifer Lawrence and Peeta Josh Hutcherson , joint winners of the 74th Hunger Games, whose behaviour has promoted rebellion in the districts, so he fiddles the rules to get them back into the arena where he hopes that this time they won't make it out alive. Admittedly, I'm probably one of the few people to watch this film without reading the book first, but I hold the firm belief that any film should stand on its own merits without the need to 'gen up' on the story and characters beforehand.

Sadly, unless the viewer is already familiar with the material, I reckon there's a good chance they'll be asking quite a few questions along the way. Nearly two-and-a-half hours should easily be enough time to satisfactorily explain matters, but certain aspects of the plot still left me puzzled not that I'm advocating an even longer cut of the film to make things clearer— minutes was more than enough for me!

Despite help from both my wife and daughter who HAVE read the books , I was frequently left scratching my head in bewilderment: If Plutarch Heavensbee Philip Seymour Hoffman wanted to keep Katniss alive, why did he risk killing her with poison gas, mutated apes and a rapidly rotating island, all of which almost finish her off?

With flash floods and poison gas attacks, wouldn't there be the possibility of every tribute dying at the same time? Why do the tributes bother forming alliances when they will have to kill each other sooner or later? Was Beetee's plan to destroy a mile-high dome by hitting it with a spear connected to a lightning conductor tree by a copper cable?

Was it? Just as I was busy trying to figure out the answers to these awkward questions and others , the bloody film just stopped.

Right in the middle of things. While I appreciate that the middle chapter in a trilogy has to end somewhere, they could have picked a better. If you can't be with the one you love, then love the one you're with. TxMike 8 March This is the second in the series of 'Hunger Games' movies based on the books. My wife read them, I didn't. We saw this one last night on Blu- Ray, about a year and a half after we saw the first one.

The Blu-Ray picture and sound are quite good, it gave my subwoofer a good work out. All the main characters are back, played by the same actors. In this episode a year has passed, it is the 75th hunger games, the yearly event to remind all of the failed revolution.

But Snow is still unhappy how the prior one ended, with Katniss and Peeta both surviving, by threatening to eat the poison berries. Snow wants Katniss dead, but wants it to happen in a way for all to see. So they change the rule, the tributes this year will be chosen only from among the prior victors. This of course is a big betrayal because victors had all been promised a free life after their own hunger games. So this one is about the competition and the alliances, Snow determined they will die, Katniss determined she and Peeta will survive.

Frankly, much of the middle I found a bit tedious, the parts where all the contestants were in the domed forest and had to face various dangers. It just didn't seem interesting to me.

I had a lot more interest in the opening scenes leading up to the actual competition, and the closing scenes. Still, a good movie, worth the watch. SPOILERS: As it turned out several behind the scenes were conspiring to make sure Katniss and Peeta survived, and in fact when it was all done they described it as the start of the revolution.

Not only does Katniss survive, plus Peeta and several others, she managed to shoot an arrow, with copper wire attached, into the roof as an artificial lightning bolt hit a tree on schedule, this destroyed the dome and structure came raining down. She and the others were rescued and nursed back to health. Quinoa 30 November Francis Lawrence was somehow the best or just a right choice for this installment of the Hunger Games series - and it seems like he did a good enough job that the producers gave him the two parter of Mockingjay - and yet it is easy to see from I am Legend.

What's different from that film to this one is that the source material isn't changed around to fit something else, it's just kept to what the book was and how strong the story and action set pieces got underway. In other words, it's loaded with superbly staged action, characters that get fleshed out more than before both heroes and villains and one that may be in-between , and the politics of it is striking. Yes, for a blockbuster like this it can get political.

What sets this off well is a scene early one where Katniss is called in to the office of President Snow Sutherland. So the first part is watching Katniss and Peeta having to still put on a front of things to the world watching the winners, but also seeing how absolutely awful things are for people in the districts. And yet it doesn't seem that far off from something that could be seen in the real world: say, a badly-off urban area, or a militarized city, surrounded in fear and intimidation except when there's rebellion, in some small and big gestures.

All through this first part Lawrence is still acting in ways thats more about responding to people with looks, or downplaying what could be bigger emotions from any other actress. It's from here that we get a sort of Hunger Games part TWO in the sense of seeing the games all over again and of course the thought is how they can do what they did in the first film better or different.

What's surprising is if there was any thought that Lawrence couldn't direct this to top Gary Ross - it certainly wasn't difficult from a filmmaking stand-point. By this I mean that unlike the first movie, which was really an R-rated action movie edited down to PG in a matter of how the cuts were jagged and unsettling and not in any effective way , Catching Fire delivers really shocking action beats and moments of brutality, but nothing seems like it is cut or shot in a way that is disorientating or shot in a way that is 'off'.

Lawrence gets these actors from one place to the next and yet finds time for people to sit down and have good talk. The other great addition here is Phillip Seymour Hoffman. He plays Plutarch, a new game-maker chief ok, not the most subtle name, but then how about Peeta or Snow. Like Sutherland he relishes in under-playing things at times, just delivering a look says enough than having to say extra things, but at the same time his presence as this guy who seems TOO smart in some ways, how he talks up things to Snow, makes him the most welcome addition in the film.

It's actors like him and the others brought over from the first movie that sets this apart from other movies. There's high velocity thrills and kills, and you get some crazy special effects and even yes monsters I still remember leeches at one point being a major threat in a mud pool or something.

But it all comes back to the characters and the stakes in the time-frame for them, and most of all about the IMAGE that's presented.

There's satire here, not really buried but on the contrary fully present and out there. In a way its obviousness is part of why it's kind of brilliant if not like all-time great or anything, it's still got some sappy moments and a cliffhanger that is both devastating and kind of over the top ; you know it's right here in society, but it's taken to another level in a way that takes from other science fiction stories in a fresh way.

Well, it's been more than a year since I saw The Hunger Games and really enjoyed it so when I watched this sequel with my movie theatre-working friend who had seen it twice before and liked it , I was very glad I did! Critic Reviews. Drew McWeeny Nov 20, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire more than makes the case for this as a franchise that's going to get better as it goes, and I am genuinely excited to see how they wrap it up.

Read full review. Ty Burr Nov 21, Daniel Green Nov 20, With Catching Fire, director Lawrence certainly isn't afraid to bide his time and build anticipation for the truly spectacular and tropical-tinged Quarter Quell, patiently reestablishing crucial relationships for maximum dramatic pay-off.

Ian Buckwalter Nov 22, Everything that felt clumsy in The Hunger Games has been improved upon here. 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. Michael Phillips Nov 19, Catching Fire has the bonus of a genuinely charismatic performer at its center. Jennifer Lawrence, now an Oscar winner thanks to "Silver Linings Playbook," emotes like crazy throughout "Catching Fire," but you never catch her acting.

Manohla Dargis Nov 21, User Score. Write a Review. User Reviews. MovieGoer14 Nov 22, I really liked The Hunger Games, it was truly different, original and overall very entertaining and touching.

Catching fire is a really big improvement on the first Hunger Games, no shaky cameras first of all. Not always that we get good sequels, this middle installment of a great upcoming I really liked The Hunger Games, it was truly different, original and overall very entertaining and touching.

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Parent of a 10 and year-old Written by marierm November 23, Disturbing and entertaining story of oppression and rebellion The first time I heard about the concept of The Hunger Games I was horrified at the basic concept, not understanding that the story was on my side.

That point b Continue reading. Report this review. Parent of a 5, 10, and year-old Written by Amry69 January 13, Wonderful Film I just saw this movie with my daughter There are some political concepts that were over her head. My biggest fear was the violence.

Reviews from this webs Teen, 15 years old Written by doodlebuggy : November 23, The most recent release is rated PG and the books fall under the "Young Readers" genre that tends to focus on year olds depending on the publisher. The theater was buzzing with excitement. There were more teens than tweens children ranging between the ages of which is a natural given the movie's PG rating. The movie really is suited for older tweens as there is plenty of drama and intensity.

Prior to and following the premiere, I asked some parents and kids in attendance for their views and reactions to the movie. The responses were an interesting gender differentiation.

The two dads I asked felt the movies are fine for kids around 11 and older while two moms were firm that kids should be at least 13 and up as the right age for this movie.

As always, it all depends on your child's maturity level and your parenting style so I'll speak only to mine.