I watched the first two installments of HG during a long flight. Given the first film in this franchise was a decent film, it has been disappointing to see the decline in quality to the sequels. Some of the action is humdrum and poorly lit and Katniss's use of the bow and arrow is almost laughable in this film. You could say she and Snow are two sides of the same coin. Alma Coin (Julianne Moore) the leader of the rebels who plans to usurp Snow as President has her own agenda. Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) is volatile as he turns his anger towards Katniss. Panem is in chaos Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) plans to assassinate President Snow (Donald Sutherland.) Snow meanwhile wishes to spring a trap to finish off the rebels. You can sense this in the film which does not have much of a plot, scenes that are purely filler and the story just crawls because the book that it is based on has been split into two which means more padding than a model wearing a Wonderbra. It was purely made to grab as much cash from its audience as possible. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 is a film without any artistic integrity. A shame, because if they had taken the good bits from both Mockingjay movies and combined them into one (slightly longer) film, it might have been the best of the series and a fitting finalé for Katniss and co. I just sat there waiting for the whole thing to end so I could move on to something else. I watched purely for the sake of completion, but at no point did I feel involved in the story or engaged with the characters. And despite several decent action scenes (including booby-trap pods, a tidal wave of tar, and a mutt attack) that's precisely what has happened: at a whopping 137 minutes, this last film in the series feels like the proverbial dead horse has been well and truly flogged. When they split Mockingjay into 2 parts, presumably for no other reason than financial gain, there was always the concern that the story would be far too drawn out (as with The Hobbit).
Reluctant symbol of the revolution, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) leads a small group of freedom fighters into Panem to try and assassinate the wicked President Snow (Donald Sutherland).
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