Understandibly slow

Rating: 10/10 (22 March 2015)

Having read the reviews that 'Mockingjay Pt1' has received till now I am forced to wonder, did anybody seriously expect anything of worth to happen in this film? It is only the first third of the book and nothing ever happens in the first third. We start as Katniss is being airlifted to District 13 where she is cajoled into becoming 'The Mockingjay' the symbol of the resistance. To do this she appears in a very bad mocked up propaganda video which fails to inspire and only gets it together when she witnesses the Capitol firebombing a hospital at which point she screams the immortal lines 'If we burn, you burn' at President Snow. The film then follows the path leading up to, we presume, the invasion of Capitol by the resistance. The film itself isn't too bad and Jennifer Lawrence, as always, gives an intense performance and while she is on the screen, the viewer is totally captivated. I am looking forward to the second half which is sure to be action packed. My only gripe is not with this movie but with the decision by Hollywood that every third book has to be split into two parts. It didn't work with 'Twilight', it didn't work with 'The Deathly Hallows', and it probably won't work with 'Mockingjay' but greed and the wish to bleed cinema goers of every last buck will probably ensure that they keep on doing it.