Director Francis Lawrence
Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth
Rated M
Score 2/6
With the Games now destroyed and in pieces, Katniss Everdeen, along with Gale, Finnick and Beetee, now end up in the so thought “destroyed” District 13. Under the leadership of President Coin and the advice of her friends, Katniss becomes the “Mockingjay” and the symbol of rebellion for the people.
If the friendly local cinema had not of run a Hunger Games marathon which culminated in a midnight screening of Mockingjay part 1, I might have left it a week before getting around to watching this one. Though what I hope is a renewed dedication to the Movie Boards and curiosity in how they are going to wrap the franchise up. Even though I ACTUALY got around to reading the books for this one, though it has been awhile so I suppose I am a little foggy on the details of the book, but gimme a break it has been awhile since I read them.
Before I get too far into this review there is one thing that I would like to say, the practice of splitting the third movie of a supposed trilogy is one of the laziest practices in the film industry today. So I would like to take the opportunity to put it out into the universe that the practice shall be henceforth and forevermore banned.
Both Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson gave decent enough performances it was great to see Elizabeth Banks freed from all that makeup and it’s always great to see any of the Hemsworth boys get work.
However, if you’re expecting that the filmmakers that where involved with the making of The Hunger Games might have evolved their skills and delivered a movie that had a pace that was faster than your common garden snail. Then you’re going to be disappointed. Director Francis Lawrence and the team of writers responsible for this Mockingjay clearly all have PHDs in procrastination because just like the other two movies it was nearly an hour before there was anything resembling an action sequence.
Now, with Part 2 I can only hope that they are at least attempting to build to some sort of crescendo because when you were faced with any sort of action or explosion you adopted the minimalist approach as opposed to the ‘Michael Bay Method’ of multiplying the recommended amount of explosives by 3 and then by 3 again.
