Movie Review–The Mockingjay Part 2

I wish I’d waited for this movie to come to the dollar theater. Not that it wasn’t a good movie. And it was fairly true to the book. But the book, in my opinion, was the weakest of the trilogy. And that weakness as reflected in the motion picture version. I particularly didn’t like the ending or the interminable scenes leading from the climax to the conclusion.

I also hate movies shot in the dark. Film is a visual medium. Hello? That means people need to see what’s happening.

Y-Chromo, who treated me to the movie, and suggested that the third book (and therefore the movies based on the third book) was written in a rush, perhaps on deadline, and therefore wasn’t crafted as carefully as the first two installments. He also theorized that the series was not about “the one percent,” but rather about media and how it has shaped our lives. He went so far as to opine The Hunger Games is a an updated, dystopian version the movie Network.

I think I raised my son right.