Mockingjay Part 2 starts off where Part 1 left off with Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) still in District 13 and having to deal with Peeta's brainwashing but Katniss has had it with Snow (Donald Sutherland) and decides that enough is enough it's time to go and put an arrow in his head and kill him once and for all.
Of all the films I've waited to see this year this has been at the top of the heap even ahead of the new Star Wars film mainly because I am a huge fan of this series, to my mind it has brought back what it felt like seeing Star Wars for the first time but also combining it with the more adult edge I like to see in films these days but could this last shot with the Arrow hit its mark or miss it completely.
Happily very happily this movie delivered the goods, Francis Lawrence did a great job directing this film and FINALLY there is a blockbuster franchise that is willing to go dark (and this movie is very dark and very sombre much like the Dark Knight was in 2008) as well as show the consequences of these big action set pieces that so many of the Superhero movies that dominate our cinema space so much these days just ignore completely because well we don't want to upset the poor little overprotected children now do we, UGH!
But not just that Jennifer Lawrence in this film is awesome, she is awesome all together I feel but here she just takes it to the next level and reminds you just how good she really is as an actress but she isn't the only one Sam Claflin (my ideal Yamcha from Dragon Ball), Jena Malone, the late great Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Michelle Forbes, Donald Sutherland and Natalie Dormer among others are all great TBH I can't think of a bad performance in this film everyone stepped up to the mark.
However there is one tiny complaint and that is the film is too long, it runs near to the 140 minute mark and there's probably a good 10 minutes that needed to be shaved from the running time especially given the split of this book into 2 films still angers a lot of film fans.
I am so pleased this film delivered and I can't wait to own it with the other movies and see it once more in the cinemas, 4 out of 5.
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