BoRING SeT Up OF THe NeXT Film

Rating: 3/10 (2 May 2015)

Other reviewers have done well to highlight the obvious in that this movie is a boring prologue to the next Hunger Games film.
Jennifer Lawrence looked like she was recovering from a hangover throughout most the movie and seemed overly melodramatic in parts. Her acting skills seemed weak in this movie and at times she looked as bored as I was watching the movie.
This movie just does not work in its two part format. The previous two movies has well rounded stories and build up of characters but in this movie the story was jumping all over the place.
Although I applaud the directors focus on the different elements of war i.e propaganda, rescue missions, bombing raids I found some of scenes of Katniss with her old flame and friend boring and dead.
The movie seemed pretty thin on the use of SFX which I attribute to the saving of the budget for the second part of the movie. So don't expect any action like the other two movies.
Ultimately this movie is a slow boil set up for the second and final installment of the series. You could probably watch a 5 min overview of what happens in this movie before watching the second part when it is released and save yourself a boring 2 hours of watching Jennifer Lawrence moaning away.