The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is a Action / Adventure movie where things explode, plans go sideways, and sensible risk assessment has apparently taken the afternoon off. The rating says it has enough going for it to justify a look, provided the premise is your kind of trouble. Expect staying home would have been safer, but considerably less useful to the plot. It is not trying to solve cinema, cure society or earn a medal for restraint; it just needs the premise to work, the momentum to hold, and the audience to…