Hunger Games Mockingjay part 1 is the fourth entry of the Hunger Games franchise. In this film our hero Katniss Everdeen has escaped the 75th Hunger Games and has been brought to district thirteen the home of the rebel force, despite having her district blown up (hey it's been a year fair game) and leaving behind Peeta Mellark Katniss must become a beacon of hope (through the use of Propaganda) of the other districts of Panem who must rise up and defeat the evil capital.
Before I get into the actual I have something to say and it doesn't lower my score for the actual movie it's just that the whole Part 1 and Part 2 aspect of a finale movie is getting ridicules. For something like Harry Potter and the deathly hallows and soon to be Avengers infinity war which are huge stories that would need two parts in order to properly tell the story and still have a good movie but when it comes to something like Twilight breaking dawn which could easily be cut down in a ninety minute to two hour movie and Hunger Games Mockingjay which is the shortest book in the Hunger Games franchise, I get money is money but still it's kind of annoying when you can literally figure out how to condense it into one movie. Yet that doesn't change the fact that Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 1 is a phenomenal movie and my favorite in the series so far.
What I like is that Mockingjay part 1 is a movie about the character of Katniss and why you care about her.
I do care if a female is a good role model but what I care more about is that she's still a character and not just a role model. Which is why I was never that impressed with the character of Katniss I felt she was more a role model than an actual person. Yet here where we get to see Katniss at her both most real and her most vulnerable you get a sense of who she is as a person and want her to succeed and live a happy life. This in my opinion is my favorite Jennifer Lawrence performance. I am half and half typically on Jennifer Lawrence: I really liked her as Mystique in X-men First class, thought she was bad in Days of future past, I liked her in Silver Linnings play book but thought she didn't deserve that Oscar, didn't like her in American hustle and thought she was OK at best in the last two hunger games. I think she is a good actress but I hardly get to see her range.
Yet here we see her go through so many emotions, with a level of realness and natural rawness that reminds you Jennifer Lawrence is a good actress. The movie is more of a character study than anything else. Some people will complain about the lack of action but that doesn't make it any less of a thrilling movie. There is so much suspense about character fates and with the plot that you really don't need so much action to get entertained. I also like that the movie is big enough to allow moments of calm and peace specifically when Katniss sings this (way too catchy song) and playing with the cat.
The movie is also a movie about propaganda which is really interesting and adds a new dimension we haven't seen and shows us how important it cane be. I also like whenever they do a propaganda video they show the chain reaction it causes in the other districts which I loved. This is also a pretty dark movie with some pretty dark imagery and scenes with you actually seeing people getting shot and dying. So be careful when taking little kids to see this.
The side characters, which have been my favorite part of these movies, get small roles but very key and good roles and all the actors do a very good job. Woody Harrelson is good as Haymitch like in the other films although his part has been downgraded he's still good along with the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Plutar Nash who is very good along with Julianne Moore as president Coin. Effie Trinket is my favorite in the series and Elizabeth Banks is awesome in the role and Effie adds a lot of levity and entertaining even though she's in a very sad place in her life right now. Willow Shields does is great as Prim and brings a lot of heart to the movie. Sam Clafin and Josh Hutchinson probably get the most downgraded roles but every time we see either of them they always makes an impact.
The action we do see (which is very few) is good as well as all of the practical effects.
Now no movie is perfect so is there anything wrong with the film? Well earlier I mentioned the practical effects were good the CGI effects... god they are bad. They do one of my new pet peeves in movies which are CGI animals, how hard is it to get a real deer and just let it roam around. I get it with fantasy animals like dragons but when it's a freaking deer the cheaper thing to do would be to get a real one. A lot of the CGI effects looked really noticeable and I don't know if the special effects artist were rushed or because most of the budget for effects went to part 2 but god it was bad. Especially when they showed sick Peeta which looked so noticeable it wasn't even funny, I mean how hard was it to put make up on Josh Hutchinson it would have made the progression look more natural.
The beginning of the movie is also very abrupt and it makes it seem like fifteen minutes was cut from the finale product and it threw me off the movie for fifteen minutes. It also ends abruptly and unlike Hunger Games Catching fire where it ends on a perfect moment it feels really sudden.
I give this movie a 9/10~ Bad CGI effects and abrupt beginning and end it's still a phenominal movie and makes you care about Katniss if you didn't before with an interesting plot and enough suspense to keep you going.
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