The final Hunger Games movie will be out in cinemas, just over a month away! From avidly reading the books as a teenager (with the classic torch under the bedcovers move) and scoring a pass to the first premiere, it's safe to say this franchise has gone as far as to even shaping this blog from the early days. Do you remember one of my first posts back in 2012?! For my next review, I'll try and use fewer exclamation marks, but I can't promise anything. Believe me, the fangirl excitement is still there.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 will see Katniss continue leading the rebellion against the Capitol - but mind games are rife and what is real any more anyway? As the name gives away, they're all players in a very dangerous game (- only, whose?). The Games have been played - twice - and the fire has been catching all over; now it's time for the Mockingjay to take a final stand. Katniss and co. are on their final mission to assassinate President Snow, and the plan is basically to bring freedom and hope to all. This is a revolutionary war. My not so secret I-wish-she-was-my-friend Jennifer Lawrence is back as the Mockingjay herself, joined by pretty much everyone who has previously been in the Hunger Games family. The late legendary Philip Seymour Hoffman has been touted as one of the highlights of the film and I have no doubt over the magic and grace he never ceases to bring to screen.

The trailers have been warning us that nothing can prepare us for this (not even reading the books?). Nope. Here's why: if you put the series into a box, you probably get teenage sci-fi or young adults' adventure. But then you watch/read it and realise there is no such box, and it defies any label you could give it. And you look even further and find the real, raw struggle and reality of war. Even if it is set years ahead into dystopia, it is an issue we've always faced. It's not your typical teenage saga where girl meets the boy and gets the happy ending. Instead, you have the class divide between the mighty rich and the powerless poor. Uprisings and state controls, fighting for your life, survival. Is violence the answer? There is no categorical easy answer. And you have a strong heroine (yes, female and strong!). It's fiction, yes. But it leaves you pondering past the final credit roll.

Since 2012, the three movies so far have grossed over $2 billion and gained loyal fans in every generation. The story and social commentary are compelling, but they are also accompanied by great acting - and casting - and bringing the world of Panem to life on a massive scale. Special effects (the scary monster things from the first film are back), costumes, action scenes...the works. It's the last instalment and they will go all out. I, for one, wasn't keen on Mockingjay - Part 1 but then again, Part 1 of 2's are never good for anything besides setting the scene for the conclusion. I will be in the cinema, feeling slightly nostalgic and excited at the same time whilst armed with a full pack of tissues. I will then convince myself that I'm ready to bid goodbye to The Hunger Games and the end of this era.

Here's the final final final trailer for the final final final movie. (Until they remake it in twenty years' time of course.)

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 is released on November 20.