Saw it on Sunday. Managed to read the book finish on the same day.. 

Prior to watching the movie, I had not seen a single moving image of "Catching Fire" - - even the trailer that was posted. I didn't want any spoilers and wanted to know just how the heck is there a 'second' Hunger Games with Katniss in it 

Well, after reading the book, I got all the answers. Then it was movie time.

To be honest, "Catching Fire" movie in some ways improves on the book. While this might be quite hard to believe, the book itself isn't that pleasing when compared to the first book. In other words - - tremendously effective adaptation of the book. Wise choices of the changes made and the one thing that really stood out is the emotional factor provided by brilliant acting performance especially J Law.

I was surprised actually, that the movie was this good. This is definitely one of the better movies I've seen this year, though not the best.

In the sequel, you get to see more of Panem. You get to see a lot more President Snow and his true nature. You will either embrace this (somewhat weird) world or reject it altogether.

The book was 60% victory tour, 30% hunger games, 10% rebellion, but almost on the whole was on the topic of rebellion. A chuck was spent on the first part and that made the book a little big draggy. Anyone watching the movie sequel expecting a lot more hunger games will be slightly disappointed - - but to me, that wasn't the case at all. Simply put, the movie sequel is better than the first movie.

This is how I can sum up the book/movie:

Book 1 better than Book 2
Movie 2 better than Movie 1

The movie gets a decent 8.5/10, additional 0.5 added for being better than I expected.   

Bring on "Mockingjay Part 1 and 2!" (2014 and 2015!)

Now... when to read. Well, 2014 and 2015 of course.