We begin out amongst the mining-zone miseries of District 12 (fingers crossed they rope in a prawn from District 9 sometime soon) where Katniss Everdeen (Lawrence) is endeavouring to cope with life, soon to be burdened as both figurehead for the quietly-mustering rebellion (under the alias “Mockingjay”) and pawn in the games of the totalitarian boot boys of the Capitol, a B-movie concentrate of Nazis, Romans, Stormtroopers, Republican Party and President Donald Sutherland, big on slithery commandments to snuff out insurgency. So yes, it’s true, beat for beat, it is the same movie as the first. Like the movie in question, let’s build to the big finish. You’ll come out drained in a way few blockbusters seem to care about anymore - sapped by the tension of convincing human peril. ![]() ![]() We’ll do this back to front, and get the downside out the way first, because, HG-convert or not, this much-hyped sequel does most of what you would ask of it, expanding the mythology, offering performances of greater nuance and feeling, and upping the volume of gladiatorial teen-sadism no end.
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