I am not a huge fan of the Hunger Games franchise but have seen some of the other films. This effort felt overlong, I really can't see why they couldn't have told exactly the same story in 45 minutes less. There's too much filler and needless scenes that,if anything, should have been used to develop the characters more.
The singing became a distraction and was overused, the violence was almost fetishised, with too much time and effort put into it at the expense of the relationships between the key characters. Plot twists and turns were never particularly explored or explained, and felt pretty arbitrary. I am guessing the book provides far greater depth than was achieved in this film.
The lead actors never really achieved great chemistry and their relationship was, again pretty shallow to begin with,and wasn't given adequate time to grow and evolve.
I can't say I hated the movie but I'd definitely not rush to watch it again, I doubt I'll remember much about it in a couple of weeks time.
The singing became a distraction and was overused, the violence was almost fetishised, with too much time and effort put into it at the expense of the relationships between the key characters. Plot twists and turns were never particularly explored or explained, and felt pretty arbitrary. I am guessing the book provides far greater depth than was achieved in this film.
The lead actors never really achieved great chemistry and their relationship was, again pretty shallow to begin with,and wasn't given adequate time to grow and evolve.
I can't say I hated the movie but I'd definitely not rush to watch it again, I doubt I'll remember much about it in a couple of weeks time.