Tuesday, 14 June 2016

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (Francis Lawrence, 2015)

One teens-against-fascist dystopia franchise finally comes to an end, but it has left a host of unfortunate derivatives in its wake. So, the arrow-toting heroine gets back into the action to finish off the fight against tyranny of Donald Sutherland's cartoon baddie, and at least there is a small twist at the end as well as some attempt to introduce some political complexity, as with the otherwise yawnsome last part, but it's all drawn out very thin to justify its running time. Really, the whole concept would have been better served by tying everything up with the first film in the series, which had the virtue of some really quite gripping action that none of its follow-ups have come close to.

5/10

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