Waiting for the conclusion of the Hunger Games franchise is like waiting for the next episode of your less-than-favourite television show except, instead of a week, you have to wait for a year and once it arrives it is hardly worth the effort. There is nothing in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2to justify the decision to split the last book in Suzanne Collins' series into two parts.In fact this is the most insipid, dull and expensive waste of screen time in recent memory. Jennifer Lawrence long ago moved beyond her role as Katnis Everdeen and here she looks almost as bored as the audience. After almost but unfortunately not dying at the end of the last film she must rally together the troops in one last push to rid Panem of the dictatorship of President Snow and finally decide which doe-eyed, tearful boy she'll choose - Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) or Gale Hawthorne (Liam Hemsworth). Mostly grey and full of scenes shot in tunnels underground where water constantly drips like a Chinese water torture clock counting down the interminable 137 minutes of its running time, the film succeeds only as an effective cure for insomnia.A director like John Carpenter would have done a fantastic job with the same material and far less resources but director Francis Lawrence doesn't have the imagination and it shows. The plot relies on so many coincidences that you feel you've just walked into a fortune tellers' convention and the final act stubbornly refuses to end when everybody knows it should.If there's a hell, there's a room in it where Mockingjay Part 2 plays constantly on repeat on wide screen television screens. It's a great shame that this is the last screen appearance of Philip Seymour Hoffman.Also OpeningMAGGIESchwarzenegger shows surprising delicacy as a man trying to prevent his child succumbing to a deadly virus. Jonathan Romney, theguardian.comNO ESCAPEThis whites-in-peril thriller set in an unnamed country is essentially World War Z with Asians. Tim Robey, telegraph.co.zaWOLF TOTEMImpressively staged animal action sequences spice up an unconvincingly drawn human drama. Boyd van Hoeij, hollywoodreporter.comHE NAMED ME MALALADavid Guggenheim has made an important film which feels so timely and vital, that the movie doesn't need to be technically brilliant. Lesley Coffin, themarysue.com..