This movie has one major problem: it's based on a book millions can recite verbatim, and those folks would get extremely upset - and dive straight to the Internet to express their disgust - if the movie weren't as close to the book as it's possible to get. So...that's what they made.
The end result is a movie with far too little of Katniss shooting Peacekeepers and way too much strategizing, deep existential conversation, and attempts to convince Peeta not to eat Katniss' face, that took all of its predecessor and half this one to actually start moving. Unfortunately for the book, those of us who haven't read the trilogy would much rather have had shot-up Peacekeepers.
The movie isn't a total loss. The fight scenes are fun. It's just that there are so few of them! If they could have made a movie "inspired" by the book with about half the talking and twice the battle scenes Suzanne Collins put in her book, it would have been a more entertaining show.
The end result is a movie with far too little of Katniss shooting Peacekeepers and way too much strategizing, deep existential conversation, and attempts to convince Peeta not to eat Katniss' face, that took all of its predecessor and half this one to actually start moving. Unfortunately for the book, those of us who haven't read the trilogy would much rather have had shot-up Peacekeepers.
The movie isn't a total loss. The fight scenes are fun. It's just that there are so few of them! If they could have made a movie "inspired" by the book with about half the talking and twice the battle scenes Suzanne Collins put in her book, it would have been a more entertaining show.