This cynical and unnecessary attempt to splice Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games finale into two movies suffers from spreading the material so thin. The Games might be gone but you’re certainly left very hungry.
Having obliterated the Quarter Quell with her dome-destroying arrow, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) awakens to find District 12 decimated, Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) held prisoner in the Capital by a seething President Snow (Donald Sutherland), and a burgeoning shadow of war growing throughout the districts.
Enlisted by the president of the ground dwelling District 13, Alma Coin (Julianne Moore), at the behest of gamesmaker-turned-resistance fighter, Plutarch Heavensbee (Philip Seymour Hoffman), Katniss becomes the face of the uprising, and through a series of propaganda videos broadcast around Pan-Em, puts those closest to her in immediate danger.
