“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2” is finally here, bringing yet another film franchise to a close, this time the story of Panem, the land in which wealth disparity is the name of the game and open rebellion is all the poor people have left. After the episodic feel of the second movie and the incredibly boring wheel spinning of the third movie, we finally have here a movie with scenes featuring characters doing stuff, with final goals in sight and ultimate sacrifices ready to be made. It took several years, a number of films, and hundreds of millions of dollars, but we finally have a conclusion, an ending, a sense of finality…but was it all worth it?

In this final film we pick up with Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and the rest of the rebellion, planning their final missions that will have them secure weapons for their final assault on the Capitol, in which they will attempt to overthrow the dominant paradigm by ousting cruel President Snow (Donald Sutherland) and making Panem a free country with open elections…you know, good old democracy. But just as Katniss has been a reluctant participant in the rebellion, offering her services as the face of the rebellion mostly due to her hatred of President Snow, in this last movie she openly questions the actions of the rebels, who are willing to kill many civilians in order to advance their own cause. She sees the horrors of war firsthand and she recoils. She would rather everyone just worked together to take out Snow and be done with it, but war isn’t easy, and the rebellion gets messy, and she doesn’t like it.Continue Reading …