A strong but slightly disappointing lead up to the finale

Rating: 7/10 (19 November 2014)

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay suffered heavily from being Part 1 in a two part film. It was given the task of setting up all of the action to come and that hurt the film both in terms of runtime and overall content. The movie is littered with lots of dialogue between the characters that although is somewhat interesting, but does get a little tiring by the end. On the plus side Jennifer Lawrence's character does get a lot of development throughout the film, but that did create a negative by taking away many chances to have other character develop. In the end the film was very well acted by all involved, but let itself down by having to setup all of the events in Part 2 of the final film.