It feels vulgar and wrong to just lay out up-and-down judgments of movies like this, but I guess in a world where people quote Rotten Tomatoes aggregate scores to each other like theyâre scientific facts, itâs not so bad by comparison. Let me tell you where I stand on the Hunger Games movies so far. The first one, The Hunger Games, was a pretty okay movie with some obvious flaws that wasnât as good as the book it was adapted from. Jennifer Lawrenceâs performance as Katniss Everdeen held the film together and made it better than the sum of its parts. The second one, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, was not only better than both the book itâs based on and the first film in the series, it was an actively good sci-fi movie. And now weâre on the third oneâor rather, I guess, the first half of the third oneâand how does The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 stack up?âŠ
