The most needless installment ever.

Rating: 4/10 (7 April 2015)

I've never been a huge fan of the hunger games movies that came before this one, but I found them to be passable. However, this movie feels completely unnecessary. I cannot think of anything worth even mentioning in this movie, other than a solid final(?) performance from Philip Seymour Hoffman. I mark all of my reviews as spoilers, but I really can only think of one thing that could be considered a "spoiler", but before that I want to talk about the "smart" political schemes of this movie. Smart is in quotes because all they do is go around and film stuff the evil capitol has been doing. That's not that smart, to be honest. I mean effective, sure, but I could have thought of that and i barely pay attention to these movies when children aren't killing each other...(wow I'm a bad person). The only other thing that is done to fight the capital is make propaganda (like an "evil" government would do) and when katniss shoots down TWO bombers with a *beep* arrow. Nice job, whoever designed those things. Oh yeah, and a bunch of people somehow got like a million bombs in the middle of the forest so a bunch of capitol soldiers could follow them, and the people could climb into the trees without being shot somehow, and blow up all the soldiers without a single tree starting on fire in a bloodless explosion and WHOSE PLAN WAS THIS!!! Also, some other people blow themselves up to destroy part of a dam to stop the capitol from getting electricity. Why did they do this, you might ask (after you ask where they are getting these bombs from)? Because they heard Katniss singing. Well I guess Jennifer Lawrence's singing career has gone down the toilet if her first song makes people blow themselves up. Anyway the capitol retaliates with a bombing that doesn't kill a single person (but Katniss' sister almost dies for a cat) as Katniss' other boyfriend and some nameless people go to rescue her other boyfriend and some people whose names I can't be bothered to remember (or care for). They're successful, but oh no! Peeta's evil now! This will surely be of some consequence... or the movie could just end. 4/10.