The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 (M)
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hofman
SOMETHING’S gonna happen, something’s gonna happen, any minute now … and OK, we’ll see you next film.
I really don’t know how I keep getting sucked into vortex of the The Hunger Games franchise, or as I prefer to call it, kids killing kids.
But this one really takes the biscuit – and is only for true believing teenage fans of the Katniss catnip.
Jennifer Lawrence brings all the usual buckets of teen angst as the redoubtable Ms Everdeen, and young girls will thrill as she does stuff.
The plot has Katniss stepping up as the propaganda face of the districts’ revolution against the evil Capitol. Her beloved “Peeda” – why can’t this chick say Peter? – has been brainwashed and is the Capitol’s propaganda tool.
I always said he was a tool.
Much of the “action” – if you could call it that – takes place in one of the districts’ huge underground defence complexes, where Julianne Moore is the tough but democratic resistance leader.
There was one exciting moment when I thought a huge brick tower was going to squash Katniss flatter than a bug – disappointed – closely followed by a scene where she shoots down a jet fighter with her ubiquitous bow and arrow.
And if you’ll swallow that, then you won’t choke on this Mockingjay entree.
And me? Let’s just say I’ll give the main course a miss.
– Jason Beck
