From the start, Catching Fire feels more resultant than its predecessor. In The Hunger Games, the violence was mostly kept to the arena, and the film rampart from depicting it too graphically. This time out, too, the bloodshed and carnage is kept to a minimum. Katniss won her freedom as promised but imprisoned in fallacious and erroneous public narrative as a lover of Peeta which she might not escape. Which was also explained by her mentor and sensei Haymitch (Woody Harrelson)“You never get off this train. From now on your job is to be a distraction.”
Although it takes more than an hour before the cannon’s blast announces the start of the games, Catching Fire wastes no time getting there which is a wide thing to do. The studio makes sure to bring something new and explored the new possibilities and the result is Catching Fire is worth watching. And since the weight of despondency and melancholy hangs so heavily over the land, the faint flickerings of whatever hope is left is carried by the movie like a candle in a tempest.
Francis Lawrence, who helm this part has done it brilliantly and wisely pace up the tone of the movie. And he is also the studio's choice for directing Hunger Games sequel which he earned anyway.
Overall Hunger Games: Catching Fire is a delight for moviegoers and a thumbs up popcorn movie.