We got a bit over-excited, this genuine error was our bad. The actual running time is closer to minutes, shorter than The Hunger Games minutes and Catching Fire minutes. For hardcore fans, no running time would have been long enough for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2. Luckily for us, it looks like the concluding chapter of the hugely successful franchise will at least be the longest film of the series.
According to a press release about the film's UK premiere on November 5 , Mockingjay - Part 2 will be minutes long - one minute longer than Catching Fire. When added to Mockingjay - Part 1 's relatively svelte running time of minutes, that means Suzanne Collins's final book has been transformed into an epic four-and-a-half hours of film.
Are they saying they all promise to do their best to do their duty to God and their country? The casting of Hollywood darling Jennifer Lawrence appeared, at least on the surface, to be a smart move. Unfortunately, her supposed acting skills are lost during much of these four films due to the less than stellar dialogue. Furthermore, her rather full facial features have always made it difficult to believe she is a resident of a starving nation.
Only in the last movie did any of the actors look like they had been starving. It is, after all, called The Hunger Games for a reason. Tough to get that across when no one ever looks hungry. Aside from the fact that the lead protagonist runs like a duck with a distended rectum and stares like a transfixed deer whenever someone is shooting at her, Lawrence does fill the role of Katniss with some aplomb.
She is, therefore, difficult to like. My favorite part of the film was actually when Johanna Jena Malone says to Katniss exactly what I and perhaps much of the audience has been thinking of her character these last four years. The costume design also occupies both sides of the coin.
While some of the designs, particularly the armor worn by Katniss in both halves of this final story, are really quite noteworthy, there are equally atrocious outfits and costumes worn by so many others.
This might be on purpose, however, illustrating the absolutely ridiculous and wasteful tastes of those in power. Coming back to the drawn out aspect of this movie, I hesitate to even call this an action film as a full 50 minutes transpired before any sort of battle commenced.
In the four-and-a-half hours it takes the Mockingjay chapter to be told, there are perhaps 15 minutes of actual action. The rest of the time is taken up with talking about politics, talking about feelings, and then even more talking.
On the upside, many of the settings were well thought out and designed. For the first time in the series I found the sets matched what I had pictured while reading the books.
The music, composed by James Newton Howard Maleficent , was also perhaps the strongest in the series and did a decent job of evoking emotion that would otherwise have been left un-harrowed by the story.
In the end, Mockingjay—Part 2 does exactly what it is was meant to: it made more money for the studio. Unfortunately, that is all at which it actually succeeded. For the rest of the world, listen on WJBC. You are commenting using your WordPress.
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