The first two films were very entertaining, but Mockingjay Part 1 was awful.

It committed the cardinal sin of movies - it was boring. It felt like what it was: all setup, no payoff. The first two films are kinetic, dynamic, there's real tension...and the story arc goes somewhere.

Mockingjay Part 1 is mostly Katniss moping about, touring bombed districts, filming propaganda promos, getting bombed in the shelter...and then the movie just ends.

But the Mockingjay story was never meant to be viewed that way. It's part of the disturbing trend - which will continue - where studios try to make extra coin by artificially stretching out stories as much as they can. But it just hurts the stories. See Harry Potter 7, the last Twilight movies (though those would've been awful anyway), The Hobbit, etc.

Take 'The Hobbit'. Those films had a lot of issues, but the number 1 issue was that it was horrendously bloated and the films collapsed under their own weight. They were unfocused, with too many irrelevant side-plots and characters. To stretch it out, they tried really hard to connect it to the other films...with the Sauron thing, Legolas, the mayor of Laketown and his scenes, etc...when it just needed to focus on Bilbo and the Dwarves. That's it. Make the story about their adventure.

The first movie was great, the 2nd was fine until the end...we werent really trying to kill you, but we were like 100 x over?!?! Wtf stupid, and the third was katniss bitching and crying about peeta while thousands of her people died, the one time she fired a weapon was in the trailers, and the movie sucked balls! The series has gotten really bad.

@MexicanSuperman
No, even though it's half the book it should still work as its own movie. That's the whole point. If a "Part One" movie doesn't work one its own, that's the ultimate failure. And that's what happened, it felt like half a movie. So disappointing since Catching Fire was excellent. Hope Part 2 is good.

I can see what everyone is saying when they split movies in two it waters it down. I always think of the sopranos, the series before that last was thrown in there to extend the series n that one sucked. But do we all feel the same way about justice league n infinity war???