The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Lionsgate | Release Date: November 20, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 45 Critic Reviews
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Village VoiceAmy NicholsonNov 17, 2015
Most astonishingly, with the franchise's powerful climax, Lawrence has managed to align her parallel Hollywood lives and reinvent the prestigious popcorn flick, a crowd-pleaser with intelligent class. Read full review
91
HitfixDrew McWeenyNov 20, 2015
This may be one of the most subversive blockbusters I can name, and I respect just how raw Francis Lawrence and his team play things. Even the "action" in the film is grim and painful and rarely thrilling. Read full review
90
The New York TimesManohla DargisNov 19, 2015
What makes the material still feel personal — other than the yearslong investment and love that transform entertainments into fan communities — is the combination of Katniss and Ms. Lawrence, who have become a perfect fit. Read full review
90
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeNov 4, 2015
This is a film that dares to be about something while still delivering as a piece of straightforward entertainment. Read full review
83
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallNov 18, 2015
Lawrence makes every moments as Katniss count, pouring out mixed feelings through puffy eyes. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNov 20, 2015
The final film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’s dystopian Hunger Games YA novels, Mockingjay — Part 2, is a potent antiwar saga: bleak, savage, and very modern in the depiction of an unholy union between political manipulation and showbiz. Read full review
80
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzNov 18, 2015
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2 is a dark film, in a dramatically satisfying way. Read full review
80
The TelegraphRobbie CollinNov 17, 2015
After the subterranean sluggishness of the last film, too thinly spun out from the first third of Suzanne Collins’s final book, Mockingjay – Part 2 returns the series to its characteristic high gear. Read full review
80
EmpireHelen O'HaraNov 5, 2015
If anything, this is too faithful to the book, sometimes getting bogged down in detail as Katniss struggles to her goal. But its epic sweep, grand designs and unyielding central performance make this a compelling finale. Read full review
80
Total FilmMatt MaytumNov 5, 2015
Jennifer Lawrence shines once again in a fitting send-off for cinema’s best YA franchise. The hefty action and high stakes outweigh any shortcomings. Read full review
80
CineVueAdam HowardNov 4, 2015
In the genuinely shocking and surprising third act, it wades deep into the moral shades of grey at the story's core and comes out the other side with no easy solution. Read full review
80
Time Out LondonTom HuddlestonNov 4, 2015
This might be the most downbeat blockbuster in memory, a film that starts out pitiless and goes downhill from there, save for a fleeting glimmer of hope in the final moments. It’s a bold statement about the unforgiving nature of war, unashamedly political in its motives and quietly devastating in its emotional effect. Read full review
80
Screen DailyTim GriersonNov 4, 2015
Mockingjay — Part 2 proves to be the most satisfying, gripping and emotional film in the franchise, resolving Katniss Everdeen’s odyssey with tense action sequences and a well-earned poignancy. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeTy BurrNov 19, 2015
“If we die, let it be for a cause, not a spectacle,” the heroine barks at one point. If such a statement sounds fairly insane coming from a series that has grossed (to date) $2.3 billion worldwide, Mockingjay — Part 2 is sturdy enough to render it moot while you’re watching. After that, it’s up to you whether to swallow the irony or choke on it. Read full review
75
Rolling StonePeter TraversNov 19, 2015
The good news is that Mockingjay – Part 2, the big finale, has quit the ass-dragging in favor of what made the book a page-turner. There's the visual fireworks, for sure. But there's also the darkness of the theme. Read full review
75
St. Louis Post-DispatchGail PenningtonNov 19, 2015
An exciting, involving finale, streamlining the complicated end game of Collins’ story without shortchanging the climactic action. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperNov 18, 2015
Mockingjay — Part 2 is a grim, dark, trippy, violent and sometimes just plain bizarre journey, which makes for a fitting if uneven conclusion to a film series that’s always been weird. Read full review
75
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezNov 10, 2015
Grim, relentless and immensely satisfying, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 sends out the dystopian sci-fi franchise on a feel-bad high. Readers of Suzanne Collins’ source novel, who already know what’s coming, will be pleased by the movie’s merciless fidelity to the source material (or perhaps, considering the book is the least popular in the trilogy, will just be annoyed all over again). Read full review
70
TimeJohn AndersonNov 24, 2015
Mockingjay Part 2 is a worthy conclusion to a series that’s meant so much to so many, made stars of its younger players and allowed more-established performers to shamelessly ham it up. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternNov 19, 2015
Katniss has remained, in Jennifer Lawrence’s portrayal, a vividly vulnerable creature of flesh and blood surrounded by sci-fi extravagance of variable quality. Read full review
70
VarietyPeter DebrugeNov 4, 2015
One could argue that “Mockingjay” didn’t really merit being split in two (and surely a single three-hour movie could be made of it), but we benefit from the fact that the film has been given room to breathe, which allows for subtle character moments...and the gradual building of suspense during the actual siege in the Capitol. Read full review
68
Paste MagazineMichael BurginJun 15, 2018
As far as structure, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 has pretty much the same flaws as its source material. Freed from the confines of the literal arena from the first two books/movies, the overarching sequence of events seems ragged by comparison. Read full review
67
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerNov 20, 2015
Director Francis Lawrence stages the action sequences, both aboveground and underground, with a modicum of flair, and Julianne Moore as rebel leader Coin gives off some sparks – she’s a reformer with a totalitarian streak – but for the most part there is nothing divertingly new or different about this franchise fade-out. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleJosh KupeckiNov 18, 2015
This concluding chapter is a solid culmination of a franchise that has had its ups and downs. Lawrence’s superb performance grounds the film, as she oscillates between badass archer and increasingly disenfranchised political pawn, and mercifully the late Hoffman’s CGI scenes are kept to a minimum. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Nov 18, 2015
Awash in a depressive shade of perpetual blue, Mockingjay—Part 2 out-Nolans Christopher Nolan in the race to see just how dark a PG-13 tentpole can get before the audience itself revolts. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattNov 4, 2015
With its political power struggles and prodigious body count, all rendered in a thousand shades of wintry greige, the movie feels less like teen entertainment than a sort of Hunger Games of Thrones. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Julia CooperNov 20, 2015
It is almost criminal, though, that the end of this otherwise game-changing franchise full of bloodthirsty and complex women concludes on a painfully trite note – the strides made by all four films are undercut by Part 2’s underwhelming and hokey epilogue. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliNov 19, 2015
Mockingjay Part 1, released a year ago, was a disjointed, incomplete affair and, although Mockingjay Part 2 is more polished, the pace is uneven and there’s a sense that the series has hung around too long. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaNov 19, 2015
If Mockingjay - Part 1 was walkier and talkier than its forerunners, Part 2 is pretty much all action - and lesser for it. Read full review
63
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanNov 19, 2015
Most of the pleasure of Mockingjay — Part 2 comes from watching Lawrence, not the story around her. Her aim is true, even if the narrative arc of the movie traces a long, wobbly path toward its eventual, and not exactly happy, resting place. Read full review
63
USA TodayBrian TruittNov 18, 2015
It has the best action sequences of all four chapters, though its revolutionary message gets bogged down by a meandering plot and some good old-fashioned overacting. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsNov 18, 2015
The Hunger Games has completed its tasks well and met fan expectations. Read full review
60
The GuardianBenjamin LeeNov 4, 2015
The pace, which had been so tightly controlled in the first two films, is a curious mess, starting off painfully slowly, then rushing when it really matters. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyNov 4, 2015
This is a dish that has been prepared over a low heat for a long time, which makes for some pretty slow-going early on. Read full review
58
The PlaylistNick SchagerNov 18, 2015
Lawrence is never less than commanding in her last outing as the fiery dystopian heroine, but the most heartening liberation proffered by Part 2 is its star’s escape from this one-note fantasy series. Read full review
50
Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanNov 20, 2015
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 has the technical polish and competent acting of the four-film series, though less intensity. It contains no surprises and ends with an anticlimax I have heard is faithful to the book, though it doesn’t amount to much onscreen. Read full review
50
Portland OregonianJeff BakerNov 19, 2015
That "The Hunger Games" movies lost momentum is hardly a surprise: even "Star Wars" and "The Lord of the Rings" slipped after the second installment. The end feels like a relief for all concerned, and it does feel like the end. Read full review
50
New York PostSara StewartNov 19, 2015
The third and weakest book in Suzanne Collins’ trilogy should never have been split into two films, but since that’s become money-grubbing standard practice for young-adult adaptations (“Twilight,” “Divergent”), here we are. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleNov 19, 2015
The result is a reminder that, with weak material, it’s often worse to have a really good actor. The weaknesses just stands out in sharper relief. Read full review
50
SalonAndrew O'HehirNov 19, 2015
It’s also true that toward the end of a big series the story eats the stars, and everybody in this movie, even Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen, the Artemis-style revolutionary icon, is pretty much part of the furniture. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireNov 19, 2015
The stakes are higher because this is the end—It really is this time!—but the first hour or so of returning director Francis Lawrence’s film is legitimately nap-inducing. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranNov 18, 2015
The aesthetically misguided idea of breaking the final book into two films, commercially remunerative though it might have been, has ended up making the dragged-out proceedings feel anti-climactic and emotionally static. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsStephen Whitty Nov 18, 2015
Give Lawrence credit for a seriously emotional performance, at least, and thanks to supporting actors Moore, Sutherland and a sly Woody Harrelson for adding color and comedy. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineJake ColeNov 18, 2015
It careens from carnage to group therapy so wildly that the action never gets to build and the conversations just repeat themselves. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreNov 18, 2015
Mockingjay II is a bare bones finale — a tedious two hours in which nothing at all happens, with the briefest of breaks for a zombie chase and attack and a half-hearted bit of sci-fi combat. Read full review
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