However, such a film would be lacking in one key ingredient – Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen, who the director says is definitely making her last appearance in Mockingjay part two. In it Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) has a talk with Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) about what they do. The collective of freedom fighters from throughout the 13 districts (a rebel alliance, if you will) are planning to storm the Capitol and remove mustache-twirlingly evil President Snow (Donald Sutherland) from power and topple his oppressive regime.
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Katniss teams up with Gale (Liam Hemsworth), Finnick (Sam Claflin) Boggs (Mahershala Ali), Johanna (Jena Malone), Cressida (Natalie Dormer), Messalla (Evan Ross) and Pollux (Elden Henson). Katniss Everdeen along with her gang will entertain you this month. His mind is still not right and proves it when the group is attacked. In the book, her struggle with PTSD and other issues is more drawn out, and she even works with a therapist over the phone to help deal with everything that has happened to her. In the movie, her issues are far more implied.
“He’s an animal”, she said.
Hutcherson as Peeta gets to play insane for a bit of the film.
Though the movie is remarkably faithful to the major plot points of the book, it streamlines and re-organizes them slightly for narrative clarity and the unfortunate real-life problem of cast member Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death. “I think that’s going to be a pretty weird feeling, just on a personal level”. A few sequels you can see without having the base knowledge from its predecessors but this is a franchise of which you need to have a base familiarity. The traps were created by previous Gamemakers, which means that this storm of the castle has similarities to earlier versions of the Hunger Games. “I didn’t go to school” she jokes. I dislocated my toe by hitting my own foot. I enjoyed Harrelson and Banks very much because there characters always made me laugh. I can see every negative way that people can take it, and I don’t want to sound like I’m complaining.
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“Lawrence, the undisputed star of the franchise, received the bulk of the praise, with Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly saying she skillfully carries the movie, and NY Magazine critic David Edelstein saying, “‘Mockingjay – Part 2’ is all Lawrence, though a couple of others have their moments”.
