The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)

THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 2 
    D: Francis Lawrence                                     (2015)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth,
    Woody Harrelson, Donald Sutherland, Julianne Moore,
    Philip Seymour Hoffman, Elizabeth Banks, Jena Malone,
    Jeffrey Wright, Sam Claflin, Willow Shields, Stanley Tucci
The Katniss Everdeen saga comes to a close, at least for now, with Katniss on a personal mission to assassinate President Snow, who will stop at nothing to put down the rebellion. If the first "Hunger Games" film was a juvenile gladiator movie, this one's a juvenile battle epic, with Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) a sort of Joan of Arc of the apocalypse, still torn romantically between studly Gale Hawthorne and sensitive (but dangerously psychotic) Peeta Melark. Effie Trinket (Elizabeth Banks) and Caesar Flickerman (Stanley Tucci) are still hanging around, but they're barely in the story at this point, and some inventive rewriting was required to work around Philip Seymour Hoffman, who inconveniently died before the film could be completed. At the time I saw this, the primary campaign in the U.S. was still going on, nobody knew who would be elected to the White House in 2016, and a strange thought occurred to me: Hillary Clinton as Alma Coin. Donald Trump as President Snow. Real or not real? Frightening.