So three things:
1. Jennifer Lawrence is a very good actor. It's particularly impressive the way she so completely is Katniss Everdeen in these movies without that - surely on the way to being iconic, if not already? - character overshadowing, or even being apparently present (except by always unavoidable trace) in her other performances.
2. Mockingjay Part 2 is a perfectly fine ending. I could wish that there was more texture and screen time for several of the characters and their arcs, but I guess that would've made it even longer, and that's probably really the complaint of someone who's enjoyed these films a lot and basically just wants more. And all told it's just as engaging as the ones before it, and it follows through on the harder-edged themes of the series.
3. I do think that the whole series is impressive in the way that it sustains the serious-mindedness of its treatment of its themes of power, oppression and control, spectacle and propaganda, social inequality, compromise, individual choice and agency, and sacrifice.
(last time: Catching Fire, Mockingjay Part 1)
1. Jennifer Lawrence is a very good actor. It's particularly impressive the way she so completely is Katniss Everdeen in these movies without that - surely on the way to being iconic, if not already? - character overshadowing, or even being apparently present (except by always unavoidable trace) in her other performances.
2. Mockingjay Part 2 is a perfectly fine ending. I could wish that there was more texture and screen time for several of the characters and their arcs, but I guess that would've made it even longer, and that's probably really the complaint of someone who's enjoyed these films a lot and basically just wants more. And all told it's just as engaging as the ones before it, and it follows through on the harder-edged themes of the series.
3. I do think that the whole series is impressive in the way that it sustains the serious-mindedness of its treatment of its themes of power, oppression and control, spectacle and propaganda, social inequality, compromise, individual choice and agency, and sacrifice.
(last time: Catching Fire, Mockingjay Part 1)
