The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 Movie Review (2. Jennifer Lawrence's charisma and the the sly excellence of her supporting cast keep "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1" aloft. This third. installment in the "Hunger Games" saga (technically chapter three, part. As written by regular. Peter Craig and Danny Strong, and as directed by Frances Lawrence (who helmed the second film in the series, "Hunger Games. ![]() Catching Fire"), it also feels a bit stretched out, not to give the. Hollywood increasingly. Harry Potter" or "The Hobbit," to satisfy the most.
Buy The Hunger Games: MockingJay, Part 2 (DVD + Digital Copy) (With INSTAWATCH) at Walmart.com. Plot. After being rescued from the destroyed arena in the 75th Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, along with fellow tributes Beetee and Finnick Odair, are taken to District 13, now an underground district isolated from Panem that. When. the story begins, our heroes have literally been driven underground. Hunger Games champion Katniss Everdeen (Lawrence) survived multiple. President Snow (Donald Sutherland) as a false figure of. She became the real thing thanks to her indomitable spirit, plus clever plotting by rebel fighters and image manipulators, including Katniss's. Haymitch (Woody Harrelson); the. Plutarch (the late Philip Seymour. Hoffman, to whom the film is dedicated); the tech genius Betee (Jeffrey. Wright), and the image wizard (and ace comic relief) Effie Trinket. Elizabeth Banks). Mockingjay, Part 1" picks up where "Catching Fire". Katniss, rescued from Quarter Quell, living in a compound under the rubble of District 1. Led by their intrepid district president Coin. Julianne Moore, sporting a frosted 'do and a severe demeanor), our. Snow's planes and troops while plotting their. Of course, Katniss is also supported and pined- after. Gale Hawthorne (Liam Hemsworth), even as. Peeta. (Josh Hutcherson), who's being held hostage by Snow's forces and turned. Katniss propaganda tool, denouncing our heroine on national. TV in order to legitimize his puppet masters. If. "The Hunger Games" films were to be compared structurally to "Star. Wars"—still the commercial Holy Grail of film franchises—you might say. The Empire Strikes Back," with. Hoth sequences. The plot takes us from from setback to setback to setback until we feel. Snow has the overwhelming military advantage. The best of these depicts an. Snow's warplanes as chunky blurs that can corner in midair, like gulls. There's. Like the other. films in the series, this "Hunger Games" sequel is good at evoking. A full- on, deliberately suicidal assault on a heavily. Indian uprising against the British and the American Civil. Rights movement, up to the point when the advancing rebels quit. Katniss is sold to the. Che Guevara or young Fidel Castro (or perhaps a. Al Qaeda or ISIS- type, though of course Western audiences. A good portion of. Katniss being shaped and sold and even. Coin and her allies as a sort of pre- fabricated deliverer. Mickey Mouse or Mr. Clean of the revolution, then rebelling against. Plutarch) that in. The. problem is, for all its surface intelligence, "Mockingjay, Part 1" has. One sometimes. gets the sense that the moviemakers want credit for more political. There are many tantalizing and even powerful allusions, such as. Katniss addressing her public while standing in a cityscape bombarded by. Snow's forces, a scene that evokes pro- Palestinian camera crews. Israeli airstrikes; but these are. Katniss's. participation in a chaste and (seemingly deliberately) dull love. Paul Newman or Robert. Redford or Al Pacino, whose love interests were simpering bores. Katniss is such a powerful character, so strong and simple, that she. As is, she's like Scarlett O'Hara opposite two Ashley Wilkeses. The blandness of the film's romantic energy might not seem so glaring if. Katniss in a state of. I'm told), but it's still frustrating to see her reduced to a.
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