The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2

Mockingjay – Part 2 works again because Lawrence, who has grown as much as Katniss through the course of this series, brings forth the right mix of vulnerability and steel required of her. It's a rare achievement on screen for a heroine to be so consistently a person than a woman, making no concessions to her so-called feminine self.

The special effects are fine, but never surprising. By now the dystopia of the universe depicted in the movie has become old hat. So when there's nothing new to look at it becomes easier to spot the shoddy CGI in some of the scenes. It's not entirely clear if the Young Adult audiences will show up in droves to watch the film – the falling box office numbers of all the films of this genre indicate the genre has reached a saturation point. It's up to the finale of The Maze Runner trilogy to turn things around, or at least end on a high.

Critically speaking, the only relevant questions would seem to be whether the film suddenly veers from the path that was laid out (and has thus far yielded a billion+ in box office) at the beginning. Mockingjay - Part 2 does not.

At the end of the day, Mockingjay Part 2 is like a perfectly good piece of candy that has been ruined by stretching it out till it lost its original flavor. Either way, it's time to give this franchise the famous three-finger salute and bid it farewell.

What immediately makes this film more exciting than the previous installments in this series is that there's a lot of action, a few scares too, and plenty of thrills to keep fans of this franchise well entertained. The only downside though, is an overly-protracted ending, which is reminiscent of how long the ending of the final Lord of the Rings movie was.

Remember the franchise for all the best moments. Few came from this one. I'll leave you with lines by Katniss that sum the entire experience: "It's like a game. I do it over and over. Gets a little tedious after all these years, but... there are much worse games to play." True, that!