Official Trailer
Our Review
- Rachel Zegler, Tom Blyth, Viola Davis, Jason Schwartzman, Peter Dinklage
- November 17th 2023
- Francis Lawrence
Tom Blyth plays a young Coriolanus Snow, who has to mentor tribute Lucy Gray Baird for the 10th annual Hunger Games.
The Hunger Games are back! After eight years without an instalment, the prequel movie has arrived.
The film, based on Suzanne Collins’s book of the same name, is set 64 years before the events of the first film and stars Tom Blyth as a teenage version of Coriolanus Snow, Panem’s tyrannical president.
For the 10th annual Hunger Games, where selected tributes fight until there is one victor left standing, Snow is assigned to mentor District 12’s girl tribute, Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler). He must coach her on how to survive the games so he can win the Plinth Prize and go to university.
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes isn’t quite as good as the first Hunger Games or Catching Fire but it’s pretty close. It’s far better than your average prequel and an improvement upon the source material.
It is a dark yet entertaining dystopian thriller which charts Snow’s trajectory from a penniless and...
