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Nov 20, 2015 · With the unflinchingly grim Mockingjay Part 2, The Hunger Games comes to an exciting, poignant, and overall satisfying conclusion. Read Critics Reviews
Nov 20, 2015 · With the exception of a couple of truly dazzling action set pieces, “Mockingjay – Part 2” provides more of the same. The stakes are higher because this is the end—It really is this time!—but the first hour or so of returning director Francis Lawrence ’s film is legitimately nap-inducing.
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By Terri Schwartz
Updated: Nov 24, 2018 7:04 pm
Posted: Nov 19, 2015 2:18 am
It's war in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2, and the movie feels the weight of taking the battle to the Capitol in every minute of its 137 minute runtime. The story picks up immediately after the conclusion of Part 1 and doesn't waste much time with catching any newcomers up. While Mockingjay, Part 1 explored the use of war propaganda and the politics around a rebellion, this is a full-on war movie. Part 2 feels burdened by its need to give gravity to that content, and though it is a solid film, it's also the most flawed in the series.
The story is pretty straightforward: Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) is ready to take down the Capitol by killing its leader President Snow (Donald Sutherland), and she will do it by any means necessary. Snow's torture of Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) that muddied his memories and turned Katniss into a trigger is the latest and greatest burden on our heroine's shoulders, and highlights her need to do something. Katniss has reminded audiences again and again that she is not a leader, and with Part 1 already having dealt with her difficulty wrapping her mind around being the symbol at the heart of President Coin's (Julianne Moore) war propaganda, she very quickly decides to not play for the team and instead be the one to kill Snow. She heads to the front lines against Coin's wishes, but quickly gets swept back up into the political scheming of District 13's leader.
Snow, meanwhile, knows that the Districts rebelling against the Capitol means the end of his time in command. Ever since Katniss won the first Hunger Games the fight has been personal between these two, and so he sets out to make the taking of the Capitol a painful one, specifically for the Mockingjay. He uses the Capitol's gamemakers to set traps through the city and essentially turn it into the "76th Hunger Games," as Finnick (Sam Claflin) puts it.
Mockingjay, Part 2 gets solid performances from its impressive cast, but feels too burdened by the gravity of its story. The film focuses on Katniss as a way to depict the horrors and damages those living through a war suffer. Because of the focus on the darkness, some of the emotional scenes that aren’t hinged around grief feel out of place. The s...
Nov 19, 2015 · NYT Critic’s Pick. Directed by Francis Lawrence. Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller. PG-13. 2h 17m. By Manohla Dargis. Nov. 19, 2015. There’s no risk that Katniss Everdeen, the warrior who has led...
- Francis Lawrence
- Manohla Dargis
- 137 min
Nov 4, 2015 · Movies. Movie Reviews. ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2’: Film Review. Jennifer Lawrence is back as heroine Katniss Everdeen in the final film adapted from Suzanne Collins'...
Nov 4, 2015 · Film. Reviews. Nov 4, 2015 12:16pm PT. Film Review: ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2’. The fun and games grow darker still as Suzanne Collins' dystopian sci-fi series reaches...
