Up to that point, ∼atching Fire is refreshingly different, with director Lawrence (I Am Legend) and production designer Philip Messina and costume designer Trish Summerville further enhancing the look and feel of Panem. And since this is a sequel after all and everything needs to be bigger and more threatening Snow demands a more dangerous version of the game for the Quarter Quell, which marks the death matchs 75th anniversary. Snow realizes he must quash Katniss so hes tapped a new gamemaker, Plutarch Heavensbee ( Philip Seymour Hoffman, heavensent in the part). Their behavior unwittingly puts the district population in danger. While on tour, Katniss and Peeta further rankle the evil President Snow ( Donald Sutherland, so conniving) as they go way off script and start fanning the fires of rebellion.
As ∼atching Fire opens, both are prepping for their Victors Tour, with Katniss saying goodbye to her best friend and minor love interest Gale ( Liam Hemsworth, who has a little more to do this time). Katniss and Peeta ( Josh Hutcherson), her fellow District 12 Tribute the rules call for a boy and a girl to be selected by lottery from each area were co-victors from the previous year and eventually both won by craftily pretending to be lovers. Why? So the government can brainwash and inspire fear and subservience in its downtrodden minions. The future Collins has created is grim, ruled with bloody fist by a totalitarian government that orchestrates a reality-TV-like annual duel that pits teens against teens who fight to the death. These Tributes hail from the 12 districts of the post-apocalyptic Panem nation. Thats because Collins basically yet effectively hits the restart button and sends Katniss, the upstart co-winner of the 74th Hunger Games, into a new survival-of-the-fittest showdown, this time going mano-to-arrow against previous Games victors. So while the second installment in Suzanne Collins best-selling dystopian trilogy may be thrilling and sets the stage for even more rebellious mischief afoot, it cant help but seem a bit like a rehash. The only advantage the first film had over this one is that it got to introduce the audience to the Games. The rough edges have been smoothed out gone are those confusing fast edits while the acting, directing and writing is sharper. In many ways, ∼atching Fire is a better film than its impressive 2012 predecessor.
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