A Few Clips from The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2

Liam Hemsworth and Jennifer Lawrence, co-stars from the “Hunger Games: Mockingjay-Part 2” have a special bond after filming the movie. President Snow (Donald Sutherland) is hatching more plans to stop the rebels from reaching the Capitol.

For Katniss, Peeta, and President Snow, that total may be the beginning of a box office offensive that analysts are predicting could bring in roughly $125 million.

Given recent events, the timing is unfortunate for the scene in which Katniss and Gale launch an attack by blending in among a group of refugees. Lawrence is the big star in Hollywood and this movie focuses on Katniss from beginning to end. She’s the former battle royal contestant who beat the system, the fabled “moderate rebel” who will lead the good Panem folk (Panemanians?) in an uprising against the evil overlords who have kept them in line for generations. In the book, her struggle with PTSD and other issues is more drawn out, and she even works with a therapist over the phone to help deal with everything that has happened to her. In the movie, her issues are far more implied. It nearly felt forced but hey, he needed to see it through as well. But if I were to guess what these books were like based on their theatrical counterparts, I’d say much of the good stuff was front-loaded. The film is “explosive, mostly true to the text, complex, and chock full of action”. I never believe for a moment that she had anyone’s best interest at heart except her own.

But then the franchise wouldn’t have made as much money.

Add the late Philip Seymour Hoffman in his final role, Julianne Moore as Coin, plus Stanley Tucci and Woody Harrelson and you’ve had a top-quality cast. With a title like The Hunger Games, you’d think the franchise would leave us hungry for more, or at least satiated. “I feel more in control”. And will the fact he’s in handcuffs hurt their relationship if they’re not in bed? I wasn’t captivated in the slightest. “And I threw things – so we can and we need millions and millions of people to organise, you know”. This doesn’t mean the film necessarily ends on a depressing note, but the film as a whole is not a pick-me-up smile fest. It may leave newbies to the series a bit baffled but fans should appreciate getting right down to business. When it comes out in a collectors set perhaps I’ll do a marathon in homage.

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