Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence, left), Boggs (Mahershala Ali, center) and Gale Hawthorne (Liam Hemsworth, right) in THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY – PART 2. Photo Credit: Murray Close. Courtesy of Lionsgate Films ©
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY – PART 2 film review
– Film Review By Mark Glass –
Grade: 2 out of 5 stars
Rating: PG-13
If you’re obsessed with this fantasy series, you might have enough patience to find this fourth and final installment worthwhile. It does finish the saga with reasonable outcomes, but the path for our heroes is longer and duller than all we shared with them in the first three films, adding up to a major disappointment. Jennifer Lawrence returns as the inspirational Joan of Arc figure, Katniss (a/k/a The Mockingjay), leading the dystopian districts of Panem in their revolt against The Capital and its Machiavellian president (Donald Sutherland). It’s a metaphor for all colonial conflicts, as well as economic oppression of rich against poor from ancient times to the present. Today’s presidential debates and political commentary come to mind far too easily while watching “escapist” action fare like this.
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