Fortunately, there are welcome if fleeting moments of levity as well, mostly courtesy of Katniss’ temporarily sober mentor, Haymitch (Woody Harrelson), and her once colorfully coiffed, now plainly dressed escort, Effie Trinket (Elizabeth Banks), whose expanded role here represents the film’s most significant deviation from the novel. Their attempts to turn the initially stiff, camera-shy Katniss into a poster girl for the rebellion provide some gentle amusement, until Haymitch realizes that this Mockingjay can’t be trained to perform on cue: It’s only after she sees Capitol planes bomb a crowded District 8 hospital that Katniss’ guilt and devastation spur her into a moment of genuine, articulate fury. “If we burn, you burn with us,” she tells her enemies in no uncertain terms, coining what will become a mantra for the revolution, as dramatized in stirring, sweepingly effective sequences of the other districts rising up and causing untold damage to the Capitol.
Watch The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Full Movie Those brief flare-ups of action — including a daring, high-tech mission to rescue Peeta and the other surviving Quarter Quell tributes from the Capitol — bring a few frissons of suspense to a tale that otherwise operates in a downbeat, claustrophobic register, sustained by the unrelenting pallor of Willems’ studiously underlit images and production designer Philip Messina’s purely functional-looking sets for District 13. Gone are the first two films’ riotous colors and outre fashions; the duo of Kurt and Bart handled the more restrained costume-design duties this time around, their chief contribution being the sleek, black combat gear that Katniss wears for her appearances as the Mockingjay. Even composer James Newton Howard’s usual themes take a backseat to a haunting childhood song that Katniss croons at the film’s midpoint; it’s not long before her allies are humming the same tune as they march on Snow’s empire.
In short, all talents involved seem to have marshaled their significant resources in service of an ever bleaker and more serious-minded portrait of geopolitical conflict, replete with topical parallels (long-range missile attacks, the deliberate targeting of civilian refugees) that cut even closer to home than the filmmakers may have intended — never more than when Snow orders live broadcasts of public executions in each district, the heads of the condemned covered in black hoods. But while helmer Lawrence maintains a steadily absorbing control of the story’s pace, tone and ever-increasing dramatic stakes, the downside of his fidelity to Collins’ novel (the author even gets an “adaptation by” credit this time around) is that the film never shakes off a safe-and-steady, by-the-book feel, or an unfortunate tendency to spell out the obvious. (When Peeta sends Katniss an unmistakable warning, someone helpfully notes, “That was a warning.”) For all its obvious smarts and mildly provocative ideas, “Mockingjay” doesn’t seem to trust its audience quite as much as it clearly trusts its heroine.
Watch The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Full Movie If Katniss remains only intermittently comfortable with her celebrity, Jennifer Lawrence herself feels like more of a natural than ever. Although she has less to do on the action front (she fires only one arrow, and it’s a doozy), her Katniss remains the most compellingly human fixture of this dystopian landscape, even when the psychological toll of her sufferings push the performance into a shriekier, more desperate emotional register than before. Some of that is due not only to Katniss’ feelings for Peeta, but also to her concern for her loving but weak-willed mother (Paula Malcomson) and especially her younger sister, Prim (Willow Shields, more prominent here than in the earlier films), laying the emotional groundwork for events still to come.
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