The Hunger Games - Mockingjay Part One -C

​Quick Hit: A useless movie that really shouldn’t have been made, but still provides emotional depth and some good acting performances.



Ah Hollywood. You take a wonderful series like LOTR (three books, three movies) and defame its legacy by making a Hobbit series (a one book, three movies). You stretch the final Harry Potter film into two films, so why not do the same thing for the Hunger Games?

​This movie should not have been made. The whole existence of this movie is simply the greed of Hollywood incarnate.
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Ok, glad I got that off my chest. Moving on. This film isn’t that terrible. Pointless, yes, but not terrible. Despite obviously just being a placeholder to make money, there are scenes that are equally as beautiful, as terrifying, and as fun as the previous installment, Catching Fire. This is many due to the 

Just a couple BAs here.

terrific cast, who, once more, provides the best parts of a movie. I’ve harped on the cast a lot so far in this series in posts one and two, so I won’t rehash it here besides saying that they continue their excellence.
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The one exception is someone
that I didn’t really talk about much in my previous review, and that’s Philip Seymour 

Hoffman’s character Plutarch Heavensbee. I’m glad that they got some scenes of his character before he tragically passed away, because he seems invested in his character, like he was in so many of the roles that he

Basically, the main gist is that Katniss is now working for District 13, a district previously thought destroyed by the Capitol. They are using her as a symbol to inspire other districts to fight with them, and are shooting propos by way of some ex-patriate Capitol citizens (played by Natalie Dormer (as a BA with a sweet head tat) and Elden Henson). The scenes don’t work when Katniss is scripted, but when they put her into battle, she always delivers a rousing message that President Coin (Julianne 

Moore) wants to put out there. Here, you can see the seeds that are being planted to for the final revolution.
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The best scenes in this movie are the ones that take place in battles, as much of the teenage angst of the love triangle seems forced and unnecessary. What I personally found as one of the most haunting ​

I want a head tat....

scenes was the battle in the different districts, where forced executions take place, as well as battles where people climb into trees (it looks very similar to the CGI that was done for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes). You see the emotion here that you don’t quite see anywhere else.

Overall, MockingJay Part One really is just being used to bridge to the next movie, and seems like an exhale between two cliffhangers – the one that ended last year’s Catching Fire and the one that finishes this film. I give this movie a C, as the only point in watching is to better understand the final film.

Ok, maybe not as graceful as the apes, but still cool.

For more on this movie, check out IMDB.