Best out of 3 so far.

Rating: 8/10 (26 November 2014)

The Hunger Games felt like a warm-up run towards this one. The concept of the Games is epic, yes quite. Killing until one remains the stage. I loved watching it. Struggling to survive. Struggling to live, to love, to become and to be. If you're watching for the end battle, you're still a movie too soon. Like Harry Potter: Deadly Hollows pt. 1, they're preparing for battle. For the ultimate fight against the bad guy. They don't rush into it. Little side stories develop and get their own time.
Mockingjay is the best one made so far. Here's why: I believe I needed more. I needed a story behind it all. I needed a reason for Katniss to come back. And they gave me that. They gave me a Mockingjay. It doesn't bore. In the beginning of Catching Fire, it took quite some time until something truly interesting happened. Something relevant to the story. In Mockingjay, from moment one, Katniss' in the picture after doing the impossible: surviving two Hunger Games. She struggles with e-v-e-r-y s- i-n-g-l-e following moment. She can't be the Mockingjay, she falls on her knees when she sees her home District destroyed, she feels like she can't help anyone, like she can't even get herself back together. And still. She becomes the messiah. Following behind the scenes of some propaganda clips. Quite interesting.
The ending I felt to be a bit weird though. Why would Peeta be struggling on the bed when he's conditioned to hate and want to kill Katniss? They could have stopped after Beetee's explanation of Peeta's condition. They should have. It was clear enough. But I get somehow, you want the Mockingjay herself as final shot. I get that.
I missed Haymitch in this one. They focus all the scenes on Katniss. About her trauma, struggle and trying to fight back.
Catching Fire was, besides a run-up for the rebellion, a good action movie. Don't expect that from Mockingjay. I get that if you like the Hunger Games on a surface level, you can better wait for Mockingjay Pt. 2 to come out. But please people. Don't give me that nothing happens in this one. You just need to see behind the overall picture. You need to see Katniss' struggle. Her fight. You need to see President Coin's hope when she finally sees what Katniss's capable of. Her envy for Katniss and her sorrow. You need to see what they're all going through and went through. Please, look behind all the action and specific events going on. Mockingjay is so much more than blowing up a bridge or rescuing Peeta.