Just like almost everyone I love the Hunger games both books and movies. I recently rewatched beforehand and they still holds up and I totally agree with director the 3rd Mockingjay should have been one film instead of split into two. If it was one it could have been easily remembered as one of best trilogies.
I'm not huge fan of humanising the villains as we saw with Loki in Disney who killed thousands of people in Newyork and then becomes this funny caricature of a villain/Hero in later movies. So, I never read this book but here I would say Tom Blyth's screen presence and emotional turmoil sold this story to me. You can feel in his eyes how good & evil both live simultaneously inside us and you let one win over the other.
Rachel Zegler was amazing as she not only speaks in southern accent but sings too. She never fights in the whole movie not once as she rightly said that "Lucy Gray is a performer forced to fight and Katniss is a fighter forced to perform.". Her character is very from Katniss and she uses her singing as weapon which you never see in films.
The problem just like most viewers is the 3rd Act, as it slows down and then slightly rushed towards the end. I still immensely enjoyed the movie, and can't wait to see what Tom Blyth and Rachel Zegler (besides Snow White as I'm over CGI fest remakes) do next.
I'm not huge fan of humanising the villains as we saw with Loki in Disney who killed thousands of people in Newyork and then becomes this funny caricature of a villain/Hero in later movies. So, I never read this book but here I would say Tom Blyth's screen presence and emotional turmoil sold this story to me. You can feel in his eyes how good & evil both live simultaneously inside us and you let one win over the other.
Rachel Zegler was amazing as she not only speaks in southern accent but sings too. She never fights in the whole movie not once as she rightly said that "Lucy Gray is a performer forced to fight and Katniss is a fighter forced to perform.". Her character is very from Katniss and she uses her singing as weapon which you never see in films.
The problem just like most viewers is the 3rd Act, as it slows down and then slightly rushed towards the end. I still immensely enjoyed the movie, and can't wait to see what Tom Blyth and Rachel Zegler (besides Snow White as I'm over CGI fest remakes) do next.