Redbox I want my $1.50 back

Rating: 5/10 (26 November 2015)

For me, the Hunger Games trilogy books ended with a thud in Mockingjay. The book had a plodding, slapdash feel and I could barely get through it. When Mockingjay 1 appeared in theaters I resolved to wait until I could get it on a cheap rental and watch it on one of my devices.
Okay -- I could only get through 20 minutes of it. Was it a sense of mass ennui or poor direction that resulted in every performance in every scene looking like they had dropped a couple of hits of quaalude 15 minutes prior? The late Phillip Seymour Hoffman especially has a WTF am I doing look on his face when he is reciting some stilted dialog while he and President Coin (Julianne Moore looking and acting very Morticia Addams-ish) try to convince Katniss to be the Mockingjay.
They didn't care and neither do I.