This is the film where it’s all meant to go horribly wrong for ‘The
Hunger Games’. By chopping the trilogy’s final book into two, this
second-to-last film should be more drag than drama – the cash-machine
episode that everyone knows is just a teaser for next year’s epic
send-off. And while it definitely takes its foot off the action,
‘Mockingjay – Part 1’ goes deeper and darker. Any darker they’d have to
give out Prozac with the popcorn or offer counselling to traumatised
13-year-olds.