The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015)
Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hartnett, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Julianne Moore, Donald Sutherland, Stanley Tucci.
"Look, all I know is what they taught me at command school. There are certain rules about a war, and rule number one is young men die." Lt. Col. Henry Blake, M*A*S*H
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 is the final of four films in the Hunger Games series, and it's a fitting and appropriate conclusion to the story. Picking up right where Mockingjay – Part 1 left off, it takes our heroine Katniss Everdeen right to the capital, where she is determined to be the one to kill President Snow.
She has a film team with her, and together they follow the action a day or two behind. Katniss's role is to inspire the rebellion, not to see actual battle, but she has suffered too much at the hands of Snow to let someone else capture him. She disobeys orders without telling her crew, making up a lie to get them to accompany her to Snow's mansion.
There are traps and landmines along the way, created by the Game Makers, who also devised the deadly pitfalls in the actual Hunger Games. Katniss may not be in the arena anymore, but she's still fighting the forces that once held her life in their hands.
It is a bleak movie, and it does not prettify the fact that in order to overthrow the tyranny, a lot of people are going to die. Katniss has seen her share of death, has doled enough of it out, in fact, to understand that dying for a cause is much better than dying for the amusement of an oppressive government.
Jennifer Lawrence is terrific, as always, as are Woody Harrelson and Julianne Moore. Production overall is good, and I appreciate the thoughtful use of the soundtrack, which is toned down at appropriate moments so that the weight of the story can be felt by the audience, as it must be felt by the characters. And although this is not a movie to make you feel good, it's a movie that feels right, and props to the film makers for staying true to the spirit of the novel in that respect.
8/10 (IMDb rating)
79/100 (Criticker rating)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay -- Part 2 (2015)
Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hartnett, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Julianne Moore, Donald Sutherland, Stanley Tucci.
"Look, all I know is what they taught me at command school. There are certain rules about a war, and rule number one is young men die." Lt. Col. Henry Blake, M*A*S*H
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 is the final of four films in the Hunger Games series, and it's a fitting and appropriate conclusion to the story. Picking up right where Mockingjay – Part 1 left off, it takes our heroine Katniss Everdeen right to the capital, where she is determined to be the one to kill President Snow.
She has a film team with her, and together they follow the action a day or two behind. Katniss's role is to inspire the rebellion, not to see actual battle, but she has suffered too much at the hands of Snow to let someone else capture him. She disobeys orders without telling her crew, making up a lie to get them to accompany her to Snow's mansion.
There are traps and landmines along the way, created by the Game Makers, who also devised the deadly pitfalls in the actual Hunger Games. Katniss may not be in the arena anymore, but she's still fighting the forces that once held her life in their hands.
It is a bleak movie, and it does not prettify the fact that in order to overthrow the tyranny, a lot of people are going to die. Katniss has seen her share of death, has doled enough of it out, in fact, to understand that dying for a cause is much better than dying for the amusement of an oppressive government.
Jennifer Lawrence is terrific, as always, as are Woody Harrelson and Julianne Moore. Production overall is good, and I appreciate the thoughtful use of the soundtrack, which is toned down at appropriate moments so that the weight of the story can be felt by the audience, as it must be felt by the characters. And although this is not a movie to make you feel good, it's a movie that feels right, and props to the film makers for staying true to the spirit of the novel in that respect.
8/10 (IMDb rating)
79/100 (Criticker rating)
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