Sequel to the blockbuster isn't as good as the original, lacking focus and seemingly taking forever to get going, but has some good moments. Jennifer Lawrence remains a strong center for an action film - intelligent, brave, tough, stoic, dealing with all the men who fuss over her (around five in this one, by my count)... although I do admit having only just seen her in American Hustle there were one or two moments where I expected her to go nuts like in that film.
This is overlong, with a very extended first act, and I was impatient to get to the games. Once it did, that wasn't too exciting - they kept stopping the action so people can talk.
But there were effective bits - the death of the old black man, the final bow and arrow bit, the attack of the baboons. And the support cast is of incredible quality (one advantage to comic book movies being the only ones that make money these days is they are full of great actors): Woody Harrelson, Donald Sutherland, Elizabeth Banks, and Stanley Tucci return, with Jena Malone, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jeffrey Wright being among the newcomers.
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