The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (2014)

One word sums up this film: lifeless.

A series of films with a brutal history based on the bloodthirsty books. Jennifer Lawrence is not the glamorous actor she usually is, playing the troubled, acne-less teenage girl Katniss. With a flat storyline, merely of persuasion to join a union that hardly seems able to plan a proper plan, let alone a revolution, nothing really happens, apart from probably a few thousand deaths, and a base for the revolutionaries smaller than your average Anderson shelter. A rather empty plot, (which eventually ends up going round in a Mockingjay shaped circle), as well as the fact that like the patchy Harry Potter 7, it will be split into 2 parts. (destined to go downhill like the last Potter film?) Yet several of the actors were good, as not everyone was bad, notably the men who played the security guard, President Snow, a couple of the soldiers and not many more. Like a bowl of semolina, the acting is watery and tasteless. A flop, not much to watch really.