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Review The Hunger Games : Mockingjay Part 1
The movie takes place just a short time after the events of "Catching Fire." Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) is living in District 13, angry and in despair after losing Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) in Quarter Quell. To add, Gale (Liam Hemsworth) has revealed that District 12 has been destroyed. Only 950 of 10,000 survived the raid and Katniss is asked to be the face of the revolution that is now rising against the Capitol and President Snow (Donald Sutherland). When Peeta is revealed to be alive and being held in the Capitol, Katniss must wage war against Snow, with the rebels, and try desperately to save Peeta.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay- Part 1 gives a thought provoking, intelligent, and tense emotion to the highly successful Hunger Games franchise. Mockingjay- Part 1 gives you only half the story as the title suggests, giving the movie a sort of unfinished feeling. However, that does not effect the movie from having solid performances, great drama, and amazing tension. The action lacks, but once again, that does not effect the movie from being thought provoking and simply intelligent. It is a very depressing movie but in a weird way it's really good. There are sides to it where you just have to connect it to the "real world". Especially as we are seeing what is going on in Palestine and Syria.
Great acting from the cast; the characters were as believable and entertaining as they were in previous movies, this is pretty much the highlight of the movie. Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss is engaging, as usual, backed up with also great Julianne Moore and the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Donald Sutherland also gives some compelling threat even when his villain character is at the distance. Just wanna say Cressida is my favorite character here.
A moment of respect is featured at the beginning of the credits that pay tribute to the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman who passed away last year whilst filming Mockingjay Part 2.
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