The third and final book in the series has become a 2 part film adaptation and this story sees Katniss becoming part of the rebellion against the Capitol and President Snow (Donald Sutherland) but Snow has a secret weapon in the fight against the Rebel Scum.
I was very keen going into this film as I was a big fan of the previous film Catching Fire which really got me keen to see where the story was going to go and was overall a much better film than the first, could this new film rise above like a Pheonix or like Interstellar come crashing down to Earth like a Seagull going out to sea to Die.
Well happily this film did indeed do what Interstellar could not and that is fulfil the hopes and desires I had for it, this is a very well made blockbuster and it is anchored first of all by a strong story of Rebellion against a ruling evil, the use of propaganda on both sides to wage war on a mental level against the enemy as well as the physical and the symbol inspiring others to join the fight.
Another thing I must praise about this film as well as the others so far is its wonderful female lead in Katniss who Laurence just brings to life effortlessly in a way that she sort of failed to do with Mystique in X-Men recently and you absolutely believe in her and her character here, she's strong, she has a soft side, she's a great leader and she has her doubts, I really hope we see more female characters like this one in the years to come as other actresses deserve it.
I must also praise the cast as a whole as well, Sutherland is a great villain here and it's interesting to see him here having recently watched him as a conspiracy theorist in JFK the day before, the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman is good here along with Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks, Geoffrey Wright, Julianne Moore and Woody Harrelson.
However the decision to split this film adaptation into 2 parts severely dents any emotional impact the film is striving for as you start to get interested in what is going to happen and where the story is going to go and then it ends with a "Keep watching after this film for more of Mockingjay", I wish that the filmmakers had gone for broke and made a 3 to 3 and a half hour film which covered the book as the current decision to splice it into 2 makes it look like a cheap money grab and the first part failing to impress in its own right.
But that said none of that will matter as the lines for the film will go out the cinema door and the box office worldwide will be very big (I think the biggest of the year) but still at least its not deadly dull or disappointing so there's that, 3 and a half out of 5.
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