Not a Set Movie - The 3rd Book is Just Extremely Boring, the 2nd Part Will Be Equally Dull

Rating: 6/10 (4 July 2015)

The movie does as good of a job as it possibly could have, given the material it had to work with from the 3rd book. To break it down to the non book readers, the 2nd part of the 3rd book is even more dull, so get ready. It's just really bad material and it was a painful book to get through. Most people didn't like the 3rd book and those that did are kidding themselves. Prior to the 2nd movie being released, I knew it was going to be a really good movie because the 2nd book had a really entertaining story line. This movie on the other hand had a 0% chance of being good and to score a 6 is actually an awesome achievement...awesome job with the movie! The production crew had a really tough decision. Do you break from the 3rd book since it is soo bad or do you keep the book Nazis happy? They let everyone know after Catching Fire that they would stay true to the book (based on their demeanor and response I say they weren't thrilled about it). The only way this 3rd move stood a chance is if they spent at least 1/3 of the movie going into the back story of Haymitch. It was understandably something that had to be cut out of the 2nd movie, due to both budget and time. Basically, as Katniss and Petah are preparing for the 75th Hunger Games they watch/study several of the previous Hunger Games, including Haymitch's. They watch his interviews and how he won etc. This would require a new Hunger Game Arena etc., but the 3rd book doesn't have a whole lot of entertaining material and they split it into two parts, so the Haymitch idea would have filled half of this first part perfectly. That would still leave 3 hours to cover the 3rd book which is more then enough. I can't even begin to imagine how they are going to fill the time for the 2nd part. I mean there is very little tangible material that I can even think of except for the end.