'Mockingjay Part 2' A Review

Mocking Jay Part 2 is the final installment in the Hunger Games series, a YA book trilogy adaptation. The film opens on Katniss Everdeen(Jennifer Lawerence) receiving medical treatment after her attack from the Capitol-brainwashed Peeta(Josh Hutcherson). The rebellion goes into its final stages with Katniss increasingly marginalized, the writing is on the wall and Katniss is no longer essential. As Peeta struggles with his sanity Katniss becomes more determined to go after President Snow herself.

The film gets a lot right but it is using inferior source material, without the construct of the games themselves and with the pressure of conclusion there is a percipient dip in quality of the final book and therefore this final adaptation. The ending is rushed, many of the characters turn on a dime, and the conclusion is incongruous with the whole arc of the lead.

All the actors do a fine job especially Lawerence and Hutcherson who are expected to make some swift and impossible emotional shifts. But there is a lack of social commentary and character development present in the previous installments. Even though there are some battles in the film it all feels like falling action.

Satisfying enough.

Rent It.