YMMV / The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Mrs. Everdeen: A former broken bird who finally fought through the loss of her husband and younger daughter to restart her life training new healers, or a current broken bird who abandons her daughter - her last living relative, a psychologically and physically damaged teenage girl who had to pick up the slack when Mr. Everdeen died - and leaves her to fend for herself.
• Award Snub: While there was no Award-Bait Song present in this film this time, it still got no technical noms whatsoever, meaning the franchise at this point was now 0-4 when it came to the Academy Awards.
• Catharsis Factor:
  • Even with his already dying while also coughing up blood and laughing too, Snow being reduced from the powerful and oppressive overlord he's been to an old man waiting to either be shot dead or trampled by the crowd is still an appropriately karmic outcome to have.
  • After she got Prim killed and then was just gonna turn the oppression against the Capitol citizens rather than do away with it altogether, watching Coin get shot down by Katniss before she could even seize that power she was craving—and catching Plutarch's knowing smile too—still feels like the appropriate and karmic conclusion it should.
• Ending Fatigue: It's an already very long film and it dragged on for a while following the climax, which didn't go over too well with audiences. The final 20 minutes is essentially just wrapping up all the concurrent storylines, and showing what happened to Peeta and Katniss.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: She only got one shot in the teaser trailer, but Commander Lyme proved popular among fans, helped by the fact that she's played by Gwendoline Christie. She ends up being a One-Scene Wonder too, due to having a relatively minor role.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • The penultimate sequence sees the protagonists storm the Capitol, a heavily populated metropolitan area. Destruction ensues, with heavy casualties all around, including civilians. This is all reminiscent of the terrorist attacks in Paris that occurred just two weeks prior to the film's premier. As such, red carpet interviews were cancelled in light of the tragedy. Not to mention, those scenes in question were filmed in Paris.
  • The scenes of the deserted streets of the Capitol, with the damage of war everywhere and the buildings chalk-white, dusty and full of holes are eerily reminiscent of images of the Syrian Civil War. Upon rewatching the scene in the next decade one would note the heavy resemblance to the war in Ukraine.
• Narm: Has its own page.
• Special Effect Failure: As with Oliver Reed in Gladiator, Philip Seymour Hoffman died before he could complete filming his scenes for the end of the film. While other scenes were reworked, there's a rather obvious CGI shot of Plutarch during Paylor's speech that doesn't look entirely natural.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: The Star Squad is essentially a Red Shirt Army and no attempt is made to develop any of them. They exist basically as cannon fodder.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Despite a book the same length of the others being split into two films, there isn't much opportunity taken to expand on the books' events, in particular several bits that the fans had complained about feeling rushed, like Katniss' trial, which isn't even mentioned.