Two hours and 37 minutes is pretty long for a “ballad,” but you can’t call it “The Hunger Games: The Three-Cycle Opera of Songbirds and Snakes” now, can you? Concision was never much in favor in the four “Hunger Games” films, which reached a seeming finale with 2015’s “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2.
This image released by Lionsgate shows Tom Blyth, right, and Rachel Zegler in a scene from “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.” This image released by Lionsgate shows Tom Blyth, left, and Rachel Zegler in a scene from “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.” This image released by Lionsgate shows Rachel Zegler, center, in a scene from “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
Hollywood’s strikes are both now over as actors reach deal with studios and return to work with writers That generational divide was always at the heart of the appeal of “The Hungers Games,” a fantasy where no adult or institution can be trusted, and the normal pressures of teendom are amplified in a modern, televised Roman Coliseum — an “American Idol” with murder — concocted by elders. It’s madness shrugged off as, “That’s just the way it is.”
Lawrence’s Katniss was a thrilling female warrior whose seizing of center stage had reverberations off screen, paving the way for blockbuster female protagonists. Lucy Gray is inevitably a disappointment by comparison. Lawrence’s film, scripted by Michael Arndt and Michael Lesslie, for a while has the stale feeling of an unneeded retread. The tonal fluctuations, always a tricky balance in Panem, can be ridiculous. The stadium is abruptly bombed by unseen rebels.
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