Up In Smoke: Catching Fire, Second Installment in Hunger Games Trilogy, Is a Tired Rehash Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire . Excessive, over-produced, obscenely over-budgeted and utterly pointless, this second installment in the overrated trilogy of books by Suzanne Collins is nothing more than recycled ideas and stale CGI effects that seemed fresh and exciting the first time around the track but now hobble through the paces with the energy of a plow horse. As a ...
Nov. 19, 2013 - The New York Observer