Bottom Line: A Civil BORE is brewing! Strenuously stretching (roughly) 40 minutes of semi-memorable material into a two-hour
shoulder shrug of a movie, this latest installment of Hunger Games is a fine
looking yet forgettable mess. There’s a
tiny bit of character development, a few thin layers of story to consume and
two fairly entertaining but all-too-short turns from Harrelson and Banks. The rest is a directionless, depressingly
dour and democracy-free, dystopian, wannabe death match. Districts scramble, the President gloats and
Katniss mopes around in a boy-crazy, shell-shocked daze – this is easily some
of JLaw’s most uninteresting work. This
series that shined with its previous two installments has been (temporarily, hopefully) doused by
Hollywood’s deep bucket of splitting-movies-in-half greed. Now we get to wait another 12 months to see
if Part Two catches fire. Falling
smack-dab in to the thralls of its main title, Mockingjay Part One is a side
salad of a movie that fails to satiate those who’ve waited a year since the
thrilling conclusion of its predecessor.
This film will indeed make you hungry for something more substantial – famished for something more thrilling and fun.
Starring:
Jennifer
Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam, Hemsworth, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour
Hoffman, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Stanley Tucci and Donald Sutherland
Directed by: Francis Lawrence (CONSTANTINE)
Rated: PG-13
Running time: 125 minutes
Studio description: Katniss Everdeen (Lawrence) is in District 13 after
she literally shatters the games forever. Under the leadership of President
Coin (Moore) and the advice of her trusted friends, Katniss spreads her wings
as she fights to save Peeta (Hutcherson) and a nation moved by her courage. (c)
Lionsgate
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