celestialbaby23 This whole series was Amazing from beginning to end. Well written, casted AMAZINGLY, all around a truly Awesoem series! Wish there were more.

cinemajesty Summit Entertainments LLC presents in Spring 2014 the first ""Divergent" movie directed by Neil Burger, who had been a solid choice for this franchise establishment in the shadow of a largely successful "Hunger Games" Series awaiting its split in two third installment for an November release of the same year. Even by putting the "Divergent" movies as far from releasing third and fourth "Hunger Games" movies, the success could not be match by producer duo Douglas Wick & Lucy Fisher, too complex had become the load of characters involved of creating the story around Beatrice aka Tris, portrayed by Shailene Woodley steady raising since Alexander Payne's "The Descendants" (2011), who has become the chosen one to train full-contact combat and weaponry in one of the five factions of a dystopian Chicago city behind walls as novelty written by twenty-something year old Veronica Roth.Director Neil Burger, responsible for Part 1 "Divergent" did well by restraining his cinematographer Alwin H. Kuchler to establish the characters furthermore Tris nemesis Jeanine, performed in freezing powerhouse mode by Kate Winslet, who puts the character of Tris in the first two movies of the series in imprisoned situation, starting put from conference room, to fighting Tris love interest the character of Four aka Tibirius in a corporate hallway before coming full circle in Director Robert Schwentke's Part 2 called "Insurgent", where a developed dreamscape serum gets used to confront inner fear challenges towards the ultimate core of Tris' existence, marvelously paced character intergrations in dissolving urban CGI environment, which raised the bar for the entire production in part 3 called "Allegiant".Director Neil Burger had been able to restrain himself of focusing the mass of characters surrounding Tris in the hand-to-hand combat environment of "Divergent", keeping the coverage steady in a classic approach of three to four angles per scene with an occasional finesse of dutch angles, character-emphasizing color forces, but mainly neglecting connecting dolly-shots to deny "Divergent" being a visual feast as reference films, starting out from "The Matrix" (1999) over "Equilibrium" (2002) to the all-to-well known "Inception" (2010).A fact Director Robert Schwentke used as alibi to let cinematographer move the Digital Camera Alexa manufactured by Arri in Munich, Germany with all gadgets from cranes, jibs, dolly and Steadicam actions, justifying a 220 Million U.S. Dollars budget for two movies in one production. Nevertheless through all the technical directions, Robert Schwentke were able to use, he could not convince actress Shailene Woodley to create a breakout performance in the role of Tris, coming out of her skin in one of the many action scenes to share at least one mind-blowing confrontation, preferably with left-alone potential of actor Miles Teller, who had not once the chance to explore the dark side of the character of Peter in order to become the most hostile beast in part 3 "Allegiant" after the character of Jeanine gets shot in cold blood, keeping it movie historically speaking between Naomi Watts & Kate Winslet before the credits roll.The "Divergent" Series could have been more then just 2nd rate Science-Fiction in the years to come. The two involved Directors had been competent and researched enough to concentrate on a solid cast ready-to-go beyond the ordinary then dealing all-day long with demanding special effect departments, which in the case of Robert Schwentke made the conclusion sequence of "Allegiant" look like a unforgiving, draining flush of everything what had been built carefully out-going by Director Neil Burger's novel-translated character arcs for Tris, Four and Peter, which must have needed ultimately the inner core of a new generation clash between Shailene Woodley fighting off menacing Miles Teller and final second hit-rescuing Theo James to an surprisingly deep darkening score by Joseph Trapanese.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

Floated2 Divergent has been compared to other best selling film adaptation before it such as the Hunger Games. Having no prior knowledge about the Divergent film series, one would not be as disappointing if did not enjoy the film. This film is best suited and aimed for those fans that enjoy films as the Hunger Games, Twilight or Maze Runner, and we can see why. As these are more teenage, young adult based theme films. The Divergent Series has done well box office wise which is why it is a trilogy. About the film, the effects and visuals as well done, the presence and lead portrayal of Shailene Woodley is good as she is a likable lead to root for. Divergent is quite long and seems to drag at times though there are some scenes of entertainment in general. It is quite predictable and not as suspenseful or thrilling as one had assumed. Towards the end half, the film plays out more like a romance love story (as we all saw the romance between Tris and Four happening) in which it starts to go slowly downhill and become a little more boring in regards. The film also doesn't show as to why there are fractions of the world split, we are just to assume something happened in the beginning. Dystopian futuristic movies have a certain praise as we enjoy, but without much detail, it becomes a little wondering as to why. In general the film features a lot of stunts, jumping around, running, fighting and other forms of survival.

Evan Wessman (CinematicInceptions) This does not, in my opinion, qualify as a true dystopian movie/book. At it's core, it's a teen novel that rides the coattails of the Hunger Games, though in fairness, it is original enough not to be called a copy. But the focus is much more on the teen novel aspects of it with the young characters and the romantic storyline with Tris and Four. The dystopian aspects that the movie is named for is pretty shallow. A major point of dystopian fiction is to examine how the actions we are taking right now could affect the future if they are unchecked. Nothing of that nature is present in the regime of government regulated stereotyping. There are no points made or debates raised concerning what it means to be Divergent. Additionally, the strictness of conformity that was expected from the people was not made clear, which I disliked, but I guess that shows how important it is to the story.A major place where it lacked was its weak protagonist. Tris and Four are Divergents, and yet they have very little personality. Tris didn't feel like someone who is different. Honestly, she comes off as one of the most normal and colorless characters I've ever seen. She definitely has the least personality out of any of the other characters she interacts with. She has nothing driving her, and while that may be understandable for someone in her position, that's not the kind of person I'm going to root for. Now, part of that is probably because this was first a book, and that means that Tris' personality could be revealed to readers through her own thoughts instead of "character moments". I haven't read the book, but I've read Hunger Games, and I there were a couple of moments and shots that felt like they were trying to translate some of Tris' little interior monologues visually. It didn't help that Shaline Woodly gave a stiff performance that was comprised in large part of her gaping into the camera every few minutes. The other characters had some more personality and a couple had evident beliefs or motivations, but none of them were believable. Now, I don't want to slam on the movie too hard, because it held my attention the whole time and was adequately entertaining, which counts for something. There were enough interesting and active scenes to keep me interested, and there was some good technical work done on it. The action was fine, but there was a problem with people handling injuries a little too well. Tris gets shot in the leg and then is walking on it just fine a few minutes later, and Jeanine seems largely unaffected by the knife that goes *through her hand*. Probably the most striking thing about the movie was the sound mixing. I don't know why that stood out to me, but there was a lot of intensity created by the blending of the score and the other sounds of the movie. However insignificant that may be, it speaks to how unremarkable the rest of the movie was. There was nothing special about the characters, plot, or the world that was created. Yeah, it looked nice, but that doesn't really make up for the fact that it was essentially a pretty bland movie. It was like somebody made an amazingly well-cooked loaf of Wonder bread; as good as it is, it's still Wonder bread so there's only so good it can be. So I won't recommend this one way or the other. If you liked Hunger Games, yeah, you'll like this, but I think this is a couple steps down from that. But don't feel like you're missing out if you haven't seen it. Overall Rating: 7.2/10