I was sadly very disappointed with this. I enjoyed the first one a lot but this just felt sloppy; there is no breathing room for the characters, things just happen with no thought put into them. Woodley continues to be very good but she can't save this. Naomi Watts was decent although she didn't have very much to do. As I was watching the movie I was surprised by how quickly it moved given I read the book. That ending. Hunger Games has had two pretty decent cliffhangers while this one is sorta like huh? Totally random.

This movie makes a good case for Allegiant being two parts as maybe the next couple of films will take time with its characters and what actually happens. But if the next two are as sloppy as this then chh.

I thought this was OK. I liked the first one a little more, and this is actually dumber (and that one wasn't exactly a Mensa movie to begin with), but it's entertaining enough. Shailene Woodley doesn't really have as much to work with this time. The standout of the cast is obviously Miles Teller, who steals every single scene he has. B-

An easy-to-watch, yet inferior sequel. It may not be a popular opinion to hold, but I highly enjoy the first film in what is now the Divergent Series. It counterbalances certain absurdities and shortcomings by foregrounding heroine Tris' sense of discovery (both wondrous and fearful) and, by extension, awarding gifted lead Shailene Woodley the space to deliver an interesting performance. As a result, her choices—when to conform, when to rebel, when to love—play as authentic and substantial. The second film, subtitled Insurgent, zips in another direction. It is a more compact and forceful film, yet also more impersonal. It is no longer one's girl story in a science-fiction context. Instead, Tris is a moving part among many, and the greater emphasis on the franchise's mythology and its in-universe civil war shines a harsher light on how juvenile and thinly imagined much of it is (can the characters get to "Candor" and reunite with "Dauntless" before such-and-such and so-and-so and who cares?). I can invest in Tris and did in the first film. Her world and its politics? Not so much. On the plus side, journeyman studio craftsman Robert Schwentke, replacing the more idiosyncratic Neil Burger in the director's chair, crafts overtly "cool," Matrix-indebted action sequences which are fluid and fun, and Woodley is still a fairly riveting presence despite the diminished writing of her character. The film also wisely heavily utilizes its now-much-more-celebrated-post-Whiplash contract player Miles Teller, particularly in a third-act whirlwind of shifting loyalties.

B-

"No Allegiant paychecks for you, Winslet!"
- gun-toting Naomi Watts

On another note, the Tris/Four sex scene feels very randomly shoehorned in. Their romance is a letdown in this sequel because I thought they shared a certain sweet, if low-key chemistry in the first film.

My friend told me that this movie is absolutely nothing like the book and there were no sex scenes in the book.

I cannot remember: is this film's MacGuffin (the mysterious box) mentioned at all in the first film? To me, it seemed to come out of nowhere. Out of the blue, everything comes down to this holy-grail box and the Mystical Answer It Contains, and Kate Winslet's character is elated to have found it after such an arduous search, etc., etc.

It's not absolutely nothing like the book, but it feels like a very hollow adaptation with some major changes that don't really add anything to the story.

This "box" was never in the book. I forgot how but the reveal that the factions and their society was an experiment was something Kate Winslet's character was trying to protect. (I think? idk the book was pretty forgettable) The reveal also felt much more dramatic in the book as opposed to here where it looks like people are so eager to leave their homes when they have no idea what's out there.

I'm a little surprised to see people not trashing this all over the internet.

This is just as good as the first and definitely more action-packed. I had a blast. I'm a sucker for these movies I love the characters and the actors are unanimously great, which more than makes up for the fairly generic sci-fi plot. They're just fun popcorn entertainment. It's fast-paced and exciting and features welcome additions to the cast such as Naomi Watts (who should take on a much bigger role in the last two movies). Shailene Woodley continues to be fantastic and shares great chemistry with the likable Theo James. Miles Teller also gets a lot more to do this time around and excels. A-

Ha ha, this is true. The image is absurd. Swarms of of beaming, computer-generated people randomly ambling toward the wall. The Dissolve sums it up nicely, too:

I actually surprisingly enjoyed this quite a bit. I wasn't expecting much because I thought the first was a chore to sit through but this is an exciting, entertaining sequel.

B

The Divergent Series: Insurgent

The teen melodrama is back! An uneventful, post-apocalyptic bore. Pretty much nothing happened. It actually started off with a 5-minute recap (via flashbacks and dream sequences) of where we left of from Divergent. That was probably needed for me because from the get-go I was getting this franchise mixed up with The Maze Runner. After the recap, it got kind of interesting with the run-through-the-forest with Jai Courtney hot on their trail, then the train fight comes and it becomes difficult to watch without laughing, and it pretty much keeps going down and down in quality until the end by which point you no longer care. Nobody can act in this film besides the only interesting person; Miles Teller. I enjoyed him being a bastard, but even that was ruined when he changes sides to redeem himself. Her brother uncharacteristically changes to the dark side, which made no fucking sense whatsoever. The "action" was atrocious. So, all-in-all the film is just a forgettable, badly scripted, piece of teen shit.

D

This was an improvement over the first, which I thought was terrible, but this still was not great. The whole plot is very muddled, but it is not really ever boring, unlike the first, where you wait the whole movie for the plot to start. Shailene is good, even though her short hair kind of ruins her appearance. Jai Courtney is actually pretty good in these movies I think. I'm actually happy Kate Winslet's character was killed, because "Jeanine" has to be one of the worst names for a villain ever. "Watch out for Jeanine!" said no one ever. I was hesitant to watch this, but I guess I'll stick it out until the end now.

C+

This was an improvement over the first, which I thought was terrible, but this still was not great. The whole plot is very muddled, but it is not really ever boring, unlike the first, where you wait the whole movie for the plot to start. Shailene is good, even though her short hair kind of ruins her appearance. Jai Courtney is actually pretty good in these movies I think. I'm actually happy Kate Winslet's character was killed, because "Jeanine" has to be one of the worst names for a villain ever. "Watch out for Jeanine!" said no one ever. I was hesitant to watch this, but I guess I'll stick it out until the end now.

C+

lol, it's true.