Drags its feet

Rating: 5/10 (14 August 2019)

It makes me sad that Philip Seymour Hoffman's last film is this. The first hunger games I could look past a lot of the issues like weird dialogue and bad acting and inconsistency. The second movie took me by surprise how good it was, and going into this I tried to think of it as a political war drama but... my lord. This movie is just bland. They gloss over so many things in this film. Like the camera placement being all over the place. Also, you know-how in the last film Katniss was all about defying the Capitol and saying what she means? Yeah in this film she starts out by refusing to be the one thing to take down the Capitol, all because they like... didn't save Peeta?
This film also has so many unnecessary scenes. The two main ones being the hunting scene and the stairwell cat scene. They serve little to no purpose and don't invoke any real emotions at all. The action scenes at the end are done pretty well and it's very tense then but that pales in comparison to anything in the last 2 movies. Not to mention it's like watching paint dry for 45 minutes and then going on a roller coaster for 15. Not really worth it.
I feel like the main appeal of the Hunger Games is two things. The actual games and lots of bloody combat, and Katniss as a character. Katniss doesn't do any growing in this movie and the little action there is doesn't feel like it was earned from the previous 45 minutes of the movie. Finally, my main problem with this movie is I feel like it wasn't needed. While the second movie is long I feel like it could have been worked into the second movie.
Honestly, if you're doing a hunger games rewatch like I am skip this one.