Anyone who knows me knows that I am obsessed with the Hunger Games series. So, I highly anticipated this last movie in this beloved series. The last movie in a series has a lot of big expectations to fulfil. While I'd read the books and knew what was going to happen, I wasn't sure how the series would tie up everything together. I also knew some super sad stuff happens in the last book and for that I wasn't ready.
Last weekend, I saw it and here's what I've come up with. It was a good end to a beloved series. Like in life, not everything ends like a fairy tale, but you make choices and you live with them.
The movie opens with Katniss after the last movie ended with Peeta strangling her. She's bruised and struggling to live with life after Peeta has been brainwashed by the Capitol.
To get revenge, Gale helps develop bombs. A first wave a bombs will panic people and the second wave would get the rest of the people. Katniss doesn't like how cruel that is, but the Capitol has made Gale harsh.
She gets her way into the fight against the Capitol. They want her just to shoot film for film clips against the Capitol, but that's not Katniss, she can't stay away from the fight. Peeta gets sent along to be filmed and of course Gale is there. too. The Capitol is as evil as ever. As expected they face lots of traps and monsters from the Capitol. So the "sewer monsters" were scarier than I'd envisioned and as a result, I screamed the whole time they chased Katniss and company. Everything happened so quickly, it was hard to figure out who had died. I thought some of the losses would be focused on more in the movie than they were; that was disappointing. They eventually find an ally within the city in the form of a lady named, Tigress who has surgically changed her appearance to look like an actual cat/tiger.
Katniss's goal is to make it to the capitol to kill President Snow. She makes the trip from Tigress's store to President Snow's mansion where all residents are being ordered to come for shelter. Gale makes the trek with her, but he gets recognized and captured before arriving there. As Katniss gets closer, a bomb goes off. People rush in to help and there she sees Prim helping. People are encouraged to bring their kids to safety in the mansion. As she gets closer to the front, another bomb goes off. We know who it kills...and we know who created it. Her relationship with Gale ends with him apologizing and her ordering him to leave.
She finally gets her chance to execute President Snow, but instead chooses to take out President Coin who has vastly overstepped her role and has become part of the problem.
Katniss returns to her former District 13 and tries to live. Peeta returns to and they spend time together. The movie ends with Katniss and her family with Peeta. #TeamPeeta
While the movie was full of action, I wish there'd be more about her relationships; with Gale, Peeta, and Prim. She felt disconnected and I didn't feel the love.
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