When I reviewed The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, I made a grievous error: I described it as the franchise’s Empire Strikes Back. What I meant was that literally nothing good happened in that plodding gray film, despite the best efforts of Jennifer Lawrence and the Fellowship of the Ring—not that it was the best.
Now that I’ve seen The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, I can affirm that, no, actually Catching Fire is the Hunger Games’ Empire Strikes Back, because everything that came after it is just slightly more mediocre. Alas, that goes for this fourth film, too. To be fair, this one has terrifying humanoid-reptile hybrids…