What Critics Are Saying About The Latest Hunger Games Sequel

The Hunger Games sequel, Catching Fire, stormed into the cinemas a week ago.

With fears of a sophomore slump and uncertainty over a new director taking the reins, success was not guaranteed. But if we go by the ‘trusted’ critics, the fears have been allayed. Jeniffer Lawrence’s return and music video director Francis Lawrence have a hit on their hands. Check out what noted critics had to say about the dystopian action drama below:

“The screen ‘Hunger Games’ radiates a hot, jumpy energy that’s irresistible. It has epic spectacle, yearning romance, suspense that won’t quit and a shining star in Jennifer Lawrence, who gives us a female warrior worth cheering.” — Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

“Best of all, the movie effectively showcases the allure of the story’s remarkable, kick-ass 16-year-old heroine, Katniss Everdeen.” — Lisa Schwartzbaum, EW

“The Hunger Games’ runs nearly two and a half hours in length but is the rare film that never drags and doesn’t overstay its welcome.” — Christy Lemire, AP

“An effective piece of melodramatic popular entertainment that savvily builds on the foundation established by the first “Hunger Games” movie.” — Kenneth Turan, The Times

“A muscular, engrossing, unexpectedly bleak epic of oppression and insurrection, directed with dramatic urgency and a skilled eye.” Ty Burr, The Boston Globe

“Jennifer Lawrence does not act like someone in an action movie but like someone in a life-and-death drama that happens to have lots of running and jumping. Director Francis Lawrence makes sure that not a single performance is tossed off. Every effort is made to portray this awful future world as something real and to have the actors react with the right sense of terror and entrapment.” — Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

Below is the film’s schedule at IMAX XX Century:

SATURDAY
7:00 AM Hunger Games 2D 200Ksh
9:40 AM Thor 2 3D 200Ksh
12:00 PM Captain Phillips 2D 500Ksh
2:30 PM Hubble 3D 400Ksh
3:30 PM Captain Phillips 2D Adults 800Ksh/Students 500Ksh
6:00 PM Thor 2 3D Adults 800Ksh/Students 500Ksh
8:20 PM Captain Phillips 2D Adults 800Ksh/Students 500Ksh
10:50 PM Hunger Games 2D dults 800Ksh/Students 500Ksh
1:35 AM Thor 2 3D 400Ksh

SUNDAY
7:00 AM Captain Phillips 2D 300Ksh
9:30 AM Hunger Games 2D 400Ksh
12:15 PM Gravity 3D 500Ksh
4:30 PM Under the Sea 400Ksh
5:30 PM Captain Phillips 2D Adults 800Ksh/Students 500Ksh
8:00 PM Thor 2 3D Adults 800Ksh/Students 500Ksh
10:20 PM Captain Phillips 2D 500Ksh
12:50 AM Hunger Games 2D 400Ksh