A thoughtful entertainment that stays true to its origins
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has also resisted the urge to dumb down the content, says GEOFFREY EU
KATNISS Everdeen, the deeply conflicted, highly combative kick-ass heroine of The Hunger Games trilogy comes into her own once again in Catching Fire, the middle segment of the series about a dystopian society and the gladiatorial games that are its brutal, glittering centrepiece.
If nothing else, Catching Fire proves that - given the right ingredients - movies aimed primarily at young a…
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