Unimaginative, basic and sterile

Rating: 3/10 (22 November 2014)

Do you remember when you were a kid and your parents were constantly on you to wash the dishes. So you'd spend the next hour using every excuse in the arsenal to avoid it. Eventually, you'd relent and grudgingly do your duty. Of course, you'd ensure that you made a complete mess of the entire thing. You'd deliberately leave some dishes a little dirty, splash water and soap everywhere and perhaps even go as far as chipping a dish or two, all in the hope that if you did a bad enough job, you'd never be asked to do the dishes ever again...
... well, I'm pretty sure that's what they were going for when they made Mocking Jay.
The movie grinds its way slowly from one over-analysed scene to the next with very little in the way of exciting set-pieces in-between. I believe the running time is perhaps this movie's biggest enemy as most scenes were heavily drawn out and padded with needless and dull dialogue. There were a number of scenes that were clearly supposed to be tense and gripping, but failed miserably.
The entire movie is just so underwhelming and should have been better!
I love sci-fi. It's without a doubt my favourite genre. It doesn't take much to satisfy my sci-fi needs. However, in my humble opinion, The Hunger Game : Mocking Jay is perhaps one of the worst big budget sci-fi movies made in recent years.