LoginThe Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 review
Posted : 7 years, 7 months ago on 13 September 2016 02:22
Innecesaria segunda parte, desarrollo ridículo, personajes ridículos y desenlace aun mas ridículo.
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An average movie
Posted : 7 years, 9 months ago on 5 July 2016 09:05
To be honest, I gave some slack to the 3rd movie from this franchise but, unfortunately, this final installment turned out to be even weaker, I'm afraid. Seriously, I was actually bored throughout most of the duration. Where should I start? First of all, most of the running time was about a mission which didn't deliver any result whatsoever for the characters involved and not much entertainment for the viewers. Then, pretty much like in 'Twilight', they put the focus on some really tedious love triangle involving Katniss, Peeta and Gale. Finally, the outcome of this whole tale was just so predictable. Eventually, the main issue was, obviously, the fact that they decided to split this last book into 2 parts, a choice which had not artistic merit whatsoever. I mean, it didn’t work for 'Harry Potter', 'Twilight' or even 'The Hobbit' and it certainly didn't work here. As a result, they delivered 2 movies with a really sluggish pacing resulting in a terribly underwhelming viewing experience. Of course, some people might argue that there was no way that they could have told so much with one single movie but this argument doesn't hold up. Indeed, they did manage to adapt the previous books into single movies so why not this time? To conclude, it started as a promising franchise but only because the makers wanted to make some more money out of it, the whole thing ended up on a rather disappointing note.
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 review
Posted : 8 years ago on 30 March 2016 09:44
THE FLAMES HAS FADED
Im a huge Hunger Games fan and i've also red the books before i saw the first installment of this franchise. I loved the books and films, which are by far the best and only good young adult movies what is out there on these days. And i also think that even adults can enjoy these movies.
The story is interesting, lovable, thrilling and filled with emotions. Sure there's that familiar love triangle between younger cast, but everything else whats going on at the background mixed it in just fine.
Acting is great and dedicated. Jennifer Lawrence became one of my favorite actresses after the first movie and she has done many great performances after Hunger Games and few before it. She surely deserves her oscar. Woody Harrelson is awesome and funny like always and Elizabeth Banks did a good job as well.
It was a right choice when Francis Lawrence took the director's chair from Cary Ross after the first movie. Cary's directing was good, but hes choice to use handheld shaky cam dropped the quality of the movie. That made a good movie harder to watch.
Francis gaved rest of the parts a new kind of look and even darker as serious mood, which worked perfectly all the way to the end.
This was great conclusion for a great film saga and it was also good to see, that the filmmakers stayed most of the part true to source material, which is rare to see when books are changed to movies. There was few left outs, but nothing major for the plot.
Im a huge Hunger Games fan and i've also red the books before i saw the first installment of this franchise. I loved the books and films, which are by far the best and only good young adult movies what is out there on these days. And i also think that even adults can enjoy these movies.
The story is interesting, lovable, thrilling and filled with emotions. Sure there's that familiar love triangle between younger cast, but everything else whats going on at the background mixed it in just fine.
Acting is great and dedicated. Jennifer Lawrence became one of my favorite actresses after the first movie and she has done many great performances after Hunger Games and few before it. She surely deserves her oscar. Woody Harrelson is awesome and funny like always and Elizabeth Banks did a good job as well.
It was a right choice when Francis Lawrence took the director's chair from Cary Ross after the first movie. Cary's directing was good, but hes choice to use handheld shaky cam dropped the quality of the movie. That made a good movie harder to watch.
Francis gaved rest of the parts a new kind of look and even darker as serious mood, which worked perfectly all the way to the end.
This was great conclusion for a great film saga and it was also good to see, that the filmmakers stayed most of the part true to source material, which is rare to see when books are changed to movies. There was few left outs, but nothing major for the plot.
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A vapid void of joylessness
Posted : 8 years, 5 months ago on 24 November 2015 04:03
"Our lives were never ours, they belong to Snow and our deaths do too. But if you kill him, Katniss, all those deaths, they mean something."
2015's The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 confirms that the final novel in the trilogy did not need to be split into two movies. The first two Hunger Games films were long, to be sure, but managed to maintain momentum, even if the first picture in particular is an overly flawed piece of work. However, 2014's Mockingjay - Part 1 was a tedious, one-note slog, though it did at least seem to be setting up a grand finale to properly close the door on this lucrative franchise. Alas, Mockingjay - Part 2 is almost as interminable as its immediate predecessor, robbing the once-promising series of a rousing dénouement. Even under the eye of Catching Fire helmer Francis Lawrence, Part 2 is flat-out dull, incorporating every last corner of the source material to pad out the runtime to 140 godforsaken minutes without paying any mind to critical cinematic concepts like pacing or structure. Frankly, I had more fun watching the final Twilight movie.
Picking up right after where Part 1 ended, Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) has been brainwashed after his stay in the Capitol, conditioned to perceive powerful resistance figure Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) as an enemy. Seeing Peeta in his severely tortured state infuriates Katniss, who becomes more determined to fight her way into the Capitol and assassinate President Snow (Donald Sutherland) to end his murderous reign for good. Although President Alma Coin (Julianne Moore) wishes for Katniss to remain away from the fighting to keep safe, she defies Coin's orders, pushing for her unit to infiltrate the Capitol. Joining Katniss is Gale (Liam Hemsworth) and Finnick (Sam Claflin), while Coin also sends Peeta purely for propaganda reasons. Snow is prepared for Katniss, however, with his soldiers setting numerous booby traps.
Character and story development afforded by a lengthy runtime is welcome under normal circumstances, but both Mockingjay movies are completely shallow, with poor dialogue and very little in the way of worthwhile story development. It's a pure slog, a depressing and dour motion picture experience in search of a spark to bring it to life. These movies may cater to the young adult crowd, but it's dangerous comparing the subpar Mockingjay - Part 2 to a proper sci-fi film like Children of Men. And hey, the Hobbit trilogy is frequently criticised for its length, but at least those movies are fun. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies had little in the way of story material, thus it was almost wall-to-wall action to compensate, and it worked. On the other hand, Mockingjay - Part 2 is extremely thin, but is under some misplaced pretense of being a serious sci-fi drama, serving up such a small amount of action that it barely registers. And it fails. It's not even unintentionally funny or goofy; it's a vapid void of joylessness.
Part 1 spent far too long waiting for events to happen, paving the way for what should've been an epic, fast-paced war movie. Instead, Part 2 is talky to extremes, with large portions of the movie spent in dimly-lit abandoned buildings as the characters endlessly talk about their feelings and monitor news broadcasts. The majority of the dialogue-heavy scenes drag on far beyond their logical closure point, and it doesn't help that the characters rarely say anything overly interesting or insightful. The movie keeps telling us that fighting is happening, but it mostly happens off-screen, which severely limits the sense of scope. Director Lawrence is never able to conjure up any momentum, leaving the effort feeling fatigued when it should be blistering and enthralling. Even the ending is an absolute dud, with a good fifteen-minutes of Katnip staring at the wall and yelling at a cat before the credits finally begin to roll, at long last signifying the end of this franchise. Remember how everybody complained about the extended epilogue to Lord of the Rings? It's a hundred times worse than that. Even the ending itself feels oddly anticlimactic, closing with a resounding whimper.
Apparently, many of the flaws inherent in the two-part Mockingjay adaptation stem from the novel, which was unenthusiastically received. But this is no excuse for poor filmmaking. You can make a great movie out of anything - who the fuck expected Guardians of the Galaxy to be the masterpiece that it is? - but sometimes, in order to achieve that, you need to rip out the guts of the source material and create a standalone cinematic adaptation, rather than a slavish page-to-screen translation which doesn't even try to rectify the flaws of the source. Francis Lawrence and the writers should be challenging the material to create big-screen excitement, but instead the film labours through relentless banality.
The mind boggles when pondering just how the budget soared to as high as $160 million. 90% of the funds must have gone to the actors, because the majority of the movie takes place in drab buildings and tunnels, with no eye-catching sets or special effects shots. Photography is just as dull as it was in Mockingjay - Part 1, with the visuals often looking too dark and muddy. It was a mistake for this series to transition from celluloid to digital photography; whereas Catching Fire looks cinematic as a result of shooting on 35mm film, both parts of Mockingjay look cheap in comparison. The actors do what they can, but are ultimately unable to enliven the material. This is Philip Seymour Hoffman's final screen appearance, though his death was clearly more problematic than the filmmakers wanted to admit, as he's barely in the movie, and a climactic speech from Hoffman's Plutarch is delivered through a letter read by Haymitch (Woody Harrelson). One supposes there isn't much they could do, but it's nevertheless jarring.
Action scenes are lifeless and lacking in thrills, especially a major set-piece in a tunnel involving creatures presumably stolen from a Guillermo del Toro movie, which makes minimal sense and is often confusing to watch. Also, where did these sewer mutants come from? Worse, owing to the PG-13 rating, the entire movie feels detrimentally bloodless and sanitised. Lawrence attempts to stage scenes which show the horrors of war, but the impact is seriously diminished by the need to stick to the commercially-friendly rating. One character presumably has his legs blown off, yet he has no visible injuries and there is not a drop of blood. A bomb attack on civilians is also staged, which should have resulted in bloody corpses and missing limbs, but the victims instead look to be having a nap.
Although it would be unfair to say that Mockingjay - Part 2 is aggressively terrible, it is a lifeless piece of work and it's just disappointing that, at the end of this franchise, two of the four movies in the series are below-par, and only one of them is genuinely good. Whereas masterful film franchises like Lord of the Rings leave you feeling rewarded, The Hunger Games feels like a chore as a whole, and I am seriously relieved that it's all over. You know what? I give up. Catching Fire was a good movie, but it's time to get rid of my Blu-ray copy and forget this series ever existed. For shame.
4.3/10
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 review
Posted : 8 years, 5 months ago on 14 November 2015 06:24
All my thoughts of the final entry of The Hunger Games saga:
-I'm really getting tired of having these young adult novel adaptations constantly splitting into two parts.
-It was never a gimmick that I really enjoyed, but if done right it does make you curious.
-I actually really liked the previous part unlike most who thought it was boring.
-Of course it's the same team who wrote and directed part one as well.
-I watched this early because my theater always has events and I was allowed the opportunity.
-I like that this brings in a whole new idea of a Hunger Games arena.
-The emotional atmosphere of many scenes were just great.
-I feel there are way too many characters to keep track of. I mean some people have such small roles you wonder how such well known actors accepted them.
-Phillip Seymour Hoffman was great for what he managed to be in.
-I liked the new addition of Michelle Forbes who is always fun to watch.
-I appreciated everyone's performances here.
-The action is pretty intense and unlike the previous installments it happens more throughout instead of a long introductory.
-It has a mixture of predictability and unexpected moments.
-I have to say the sewer scene was probably my favorite of the whole thing.
-There are several points near the end where you think it's going to be over and then they tack on another scene which gets a bit tedious.
-Despite it's many flaws I still enjoyed this very much.
-I think it will get it's mixed reviews though considering.
-As for recommending it I say it's worth seeing as a good ending for the series.
-There is talk of a prequel or a sequel, but that's just going to kill the series.
-That would make the book fans grow and I believe even the solely movie fans would find it a bit overdone.
-I'm really getting tired of having these young adult novel adaptations constantly splitting into two parts.
-It was never a gimmick that I really enjoyed, but if done right it does make you curious.
-I actually really liked the previous part unlike most who thought it was boring.
-Of course it's the same team who wrote and directed part one as well.
-I watched this early because my theater always has events and I was allowed the opportunity.
-I like that this brings in a whole new idea of a Hunger Games arena.
-The emotional atmosphere of many scenes were just great.
-I feel there are way too many characters to keep track of. I mean some people have such small roles you wonder how such well known actors accepted them.
-Phillip Seymour Hoffman was great for what he managed to be in.
-I liked the new addition of Michelle Forbes who is always fun to watch.
-I appreciated everyone's performances here.
-The action is pretty intense and unlike the previous installments it happens more throughout instead of a long introductory.
-It has a mixture of predictability and unexpected moments.
-I have to say the sewer scene was probably my favorite of the whole thing.
-There are several points near the end where you think it's going to be over and then they tack on another scene which gets a bit tedious.
-Despite it's many flaws I still enjoyed this very much.
-I think it will get it's mixed reviews though considering.
-As for recommending it I say it's worth seeing as a good ending for the series.
-There is talk of a prequel or a sequel, but that's just going to kill the series.
-That would make the book fans grow and I believe even the solely movie fans would find it a bit overdone.
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