Réalisation:
Francis LawrencePhotographie:
Jo WillemsMusique:
James Newton HowardActeurs·trices:
Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Donald Sutherland, Woody Harrelson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jena Malone, Sam Claflin, Jeffrey Wright (plus)VOD (2)
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Katniss Everdeen est rentrée chez elle saine et sauve après avoir remporté la 74e édition des Hunger Games avec son partenaire Peeta Mellark. Puisqu'ils ont gagné, ils sont obligés de laisser une fois de plus leur famille et leurs amis pour partir faire la Tournée de la victoire dans tous les districts. Au fil de son voyage, Katniss sent que la révolte gronde, mais le Capitole exerce toujours un contrôle absolu sur les districts tandis que le Président Snow prépare la 75e édition des Hunger Games, les Jeux de l'Expiation – une compétition qui pourrait changer Panem à jamais... (Metropolitan FilmExport)
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Critiques (18)
Plus mature et plus digeste que le un, qui était pour moi une véritable souffrance. Il tire certes un peu en longueur et manque d’un final satisfaisant (qui se contente de nous inciter à voir le volet suivant), mais il procure un bon moment de divertissement. Pour le jeune public, c’est une aventure palpitante, bien divertissante et confectionnée à la perfection par le réalisateur Francis Lawrence. Les points forts du film sont les scènes épiques à la Cléopâtre sur la place du Capitole.
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Hungry for more! Beautiful, tragic, absurd, darkly comic and visually spectacular! The 140 million budget was not spent in vain. The second installment of The Hunger Games is much more brisk, more action-packed, and much more entertaining than the previous one. I'm very satisfied and thumbs up. 80%.
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I was really terrified of the two hours and a half of runtime, as I should’ve been. The first 30 minutes passed awfully slowly, I almost thought that I wouldn’t make it through and just give up on the movie. But I still thought that it would somehow get better and I’d start liking it, which happened in the end. Since Katniss made it into another arena, things started to get really fun. Maybe even more fun that in the first movie. From that point on, the remaining two hours flew by like a breeze and the movie suddenly became a successful blockbuster. That’s what made me so skeptical of the final two-piece movie. Because so far, the only thing I found fun about Hunger Games were the arena fights. Everything else from the politics to the war went completely over my head.
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Unarguably better, but still not good (enough). Lawrence realizes that stiff, paper-rustling dialogs full of life wisdom and great truths can only be saved from ridicule by actors with a big A and so tries to sideline non-actor “J-14"-type heartthrobs like Hemsworth and Hutcherson as much as possible. And he manages to do this in the first half. However as soon as (upon entering the arena) he loses the chance to rely on Harrelson/Hoffman/Tucci//Banks and mainly Sutherland (earning great respect for giving such a fine performance one of the dumbest villains), he is lost and the entire movie with him. Suddenly he is left only with beauties with no talent and he is unable to hide their lack of talent even with emphasis on the solid action ingredient which fails because everything important (and interesting) happens off screen.
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It’s quite a paradox that the second Hunger Games was accused a priori by critics of being a teenage romance like Twilight, and yet, there’s hardly any romance in it, or rather, there is no more than in any other Hollywood blockbuster. In short, the romantic line between Katniss, Peeta and Hurricane has now been put in the background and serves only for a deeper portray of the characters and the emotional state of the heroes within the reality of a totalitarian system, instead of being the centre of it all. Other than that, it’s pretty brutal dystopian sci-fi. The leaders of the Capitol have turned from funny colourful clowns into unscrupulous totalitarian douchebags worthy of respect. The first half has excellent pace and tells us more about how that world works, while the socio-medio-political line doesn’t feel stupid. The weakest part is the one in the Arena, which needs to have several scenes with more action (up until then it’s mostly a conversational film) and it’s only a slight variation of the events of the first part. I understand why it had to be there, but it was more fun when the heroes were on the victory tour as mediators in the relationship between the oppressed public and the governing class. The ending, on the other hand, comes too suddenly; that which was only said would have probably been better shown in a couple scenes more. In any case, I’m looking forward to the next sequel.
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