Film Review — The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

Rachel Zegler and Tom Blyth attempt to breathe life into a disappointing prequel to Suzanne Collins’s dystopian trilogy

Credit: Lionsgate

First, I must confess I’ve not read the novel upon which this prequel to The Hunger Games trilogy is based. After thoroughly enjoying the previous novels by Suzanne Collins before seeing the films, I came to this one without any prior knowledge. Admittedly, this limits my perspective, but based on the film alone, The Hunger Games: The B…