A Review Too Far - Mockingjay, Part 2

This week, our Cinema Geeks dive back to the 90's and watch the odd couple action flick Leon: The Professional. After that come two cinema releases in time for the Holiday weekend... The 33, which is a dramatization of the Chilean mining disaster, and the final film in the Hunger Games Trilogy, Mockingjay, Part 2.

First up is Leon: The Professional in which Jean Reno stars as an immature hitman who is saddle with the burden of a child on the run (Natalie Portman) who is being chased by an unscrupulous DEA Agent (Gary Oldman) who is trying to silence her by any means necessary. Written and directed by Luc Besson, it is a film that has a surprisingly endearing, but painfully awkward relationship between Reno and Portman, and features a tremendous performance by Oldman.

After that is The 33, in which a large international cast which includes Antonio Banderas, Juliette Binoche, and Gabriel Bryne attempt to recreate the tension and drama of the real life incident in Chile where thirty-three miners were trapped underneath a mountain and the efforts it took to save them.

Finally, also in theatres, is the last film in the Hunger Games series, Mockingjay, Part 2, in which heroine Katniss plunges into the capital warzone to finally take down the villainous President Snow while battling enemies and allies alike.