The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 Review

At the end of the saga, Katniss Everdeen realises that the stakes are no longer just for survival-they are for the future.

Final instalments in a movie franchise can be a tricky thing.

There wasn’t anything that really stood out as exceptional in Mockingjay – Part 2, the performances were good, the CGI was good, and the story wasn’t bad, but nothing about it was excellent. This is a film that the diehards will love just because they love the books and the characters, but I don’t feel there is much here for the casual fan. Seems like Jlaw is putting up with a lot of physical pain for the movie.

The first Hunger Games was terrific: fresh and exciting, the unsavoury tale of children being coerced into killing children paved the way for how Young Adult dystopia should look, and then spawned too many similarly-themed franchises.

As a result, the book’s already thin plot is stretched even thinner over the course of two films.

On Friday the film earned $46 million at over 4,000 locations, Variety reported.

The Dirty Dozen actor said he knows from personal experience that films can “activate you”. “What was always important to me, because it’s quite a violent movie, is that I always wanted to explore the emotional outcome of [Prim’s death]”.

There’s no doubt that “The Hunger Games” has become a global phenomenon and that Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen has become a trailblazer for strong female characters headlining their own franchises.

War is at hand and the stakes are high. She desperately wants to kill Snow, but President Coin (Julianne Moore) doesn’t want Katniss on the frontline: she wants her to stay out of harm’s way and continue to be the face and inspiration behind the uprising.

Assisting in Katniss’ quest are Gale (Liam Hemsworth), Cressida (Natalie Dormer), Finnick (Sam Claflin) and a host of others.

However, according to Francis Lawrence, who has occupied the director’s chair since the series’ second entry, Catching Fire, the events of Mockingjay – Part 2 may be the end of Katniss’ story, but it is far from the full story. The “Hunger Games” movies have been well-reviewed and the finale is no exception with a 72 percent approval rating from critics counted on Rotten Tomatoes.