It wasn’t nearly as good as Catching Fire – which was truly a great movie – but it was entertaining and like the rest of the Hunger Games films nearly singular in its commitment to seriously examine and deal with iconography and propaganda, political power and political choices in a constrained environment, and other issues that are just glossed over even in so-called “serious” films.
I am surprised so many people in their eagerness to express derision completely miss this and rob themselves of some ideas they probably won’t see in any other films.
However, I have to say that I’d watch any and every episode of a TV show where Natalie Dormer as Cressida and Jena Malone as Johanna and of course Katniss Everdeen team up to fight for justice.
It would be like The A Team except, you know, actually good.