I loved most of the books. One of the best series ever in my opinion. Except for the last few chapters which were the worst chapters i've had the misfortune to read from any modern series.
I can confidently say that this movie adapts these chapters faithfully without much deviation from the source material.
160 million dollars were spent on this.
Why.
The acting felt stilted and lame, but that might have been due to all the characters canonically being depressed wrecks at this point in the series. Which doesn't make for a very enjoyable experience.
The plot had comparatively little action for the culmination of a series about a revolution. I'm afraid to say this is possibly the one point where the movie strayed from the path laid out by the book. And for the worse. Instead of elaborate tactical suspense and serious discussion and weighty combat, we are treated to facile standoffs quick flashes of action and loads and loads of talking about inane things. Worse still, with the dialogue being mostly melodramatic there weren't many character moments to make up for all this either.
And the ending? Without giving away anything, possibly the worst twists i have ever seen or read, all in one place. Nonsensical, nothing really resolved. I reserve ratings of 3 and below for movies that teach such bad lessons that they might have a negative impact IRL. The ending here and the behavior of the main characters qualifies for this. Just straight up dumb stuff that i suspect Suzanne Collins just put in to make things more gritty or grounded so as to not have too plain an ending. This is the one point where i wish the movie franchise had just straight up discarded her ideas for being just nonsensical in the context of the rest of the story.
An utterly shameful conclusion to an otherwise great trilogy, to some extent due to the need to stretch this into another movie, to some extent because of the ineptness of the storyboard writers, but mostly because of the choice to stay very close to the source material and the original author having a fit of lunacy writing this part or something.
The acting felt stilted and lame, but that might have been due to all the characters canonically being depressed wrecks at this point in the series. Which doesn't make for a very enjoyable experience.
The plot had comparatively little action for the culmination of a series about a revolution. I'm afraid to say this is possibly the one point where the movie strayed from the path laid out by the book. And for the worse. Instead of elaborate tactical suspense and serious discussion and weighty combat, we are treated to facile standoffs quick flashes of action and loads and loads of talking about inane things. Worse still, with the dialogue being mostly melodramatic there weren't many character moments to make up for all this either.
And the ending? Without giving away anything, possibly the worst twists i have ever seen or read, all in one place. Nonsensical, nothing really resolved. I reserve ratings of 3 and below for movies that teach such bad lessons that they might have a negative impact IRL. The ending here and the behavior of the main characters qualifies for this. Just straight up dumb stuff that i suspect Suzanne Collins just put in to make things more gritty or grounded so as to not have too plain an ending. This is the one point where i wish the movie franchise had just straight up discarded her ideas for being just nonsensical in the context of the rest of the story.
An utterly shameful conclusion to an otherwise great trilogy, to some extent due to the need to stretch this into another movie, to some extent because of the ineptness of the storyboard writers, but mostly because of the choice to stay very close to the source material and the original author having a fit of lunacy writing this part or something.