The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

Disappointed

I went only because my fiancé wanted to see it. I didn't care about the movie/plot/characters or the various struggles they are dealing with. I didn't like the first movie. The second one was a bit better. Part one ended with a weird cliffhanger and was overall pretty slow but had decent character development. This movie though. I'm usually very good at predicting movies as they go and while this one had some parts you could see coming they were well paced keeping you guessing as to when it would happen. After watching they new star wars, a movie I actually cared about and left disappointed, I went and saw this movie which I didn't care about and was on the edge of my seat 30 minutes in.

As far as structure, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 has pretty much the same flaws as its source material. Freed from the confines of the literal arena from the first two books/movies, the overarching sequence of events seems ragged by comparison.

Mockingjay — Part 2 proves to be the most satisfying, gripping and emotional film in the franchise, resolving Katniss Everdeen’s odyssey with tense action sequences and a well-earned poignancy.

This is a dish that has been prepared over a low heat for a long time, which makes for some pretty slow-going early on.

Todd McCarthy

The Hollywood Reporter