Movie Review: Insurgent

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My Review

So what did I think of the Insurgent movie? Do you really wanna know? Or do you not want to know at all? Well too bad, because I’m going to share it all anyway.

I have to start out by saying that I enjoyed this one a lot more than Divergent. Why? I don’t honestly know. Maybe it was because there was more violence in this depiction (That sounds horrible, doesn’t it?), or maybe it’s because I finally got used to Shailene Woodley (Actually, I know it isn’t this one.). So I just don’t know why.

I thought that the filmmakers did a good job in the beginning of the movie. I was drawn into the plot and I even enjoyed all of the characters. None of them were cliché—even the villians.

What I wasn’t totally sure about was the box thing. Tris is supposed to be the divergent they’re after because she has 100% divergent genes, or blood, or whatever, but originally, Tris only tested for Abnegation, Erudite, and Dauntless. And guess what? This only adds up to 60%. PLOT HOLE! I also just didn’t enjoy the extreme sci-fi-ness of the last thirty or so minutes of the movie. It was just odd. This coupled with the horrible CGI/graphics that appeared during quite a few portions of the film had me wondering what they were thinking while editing this movie.

Despite all of my nit-picking, I had things I did enjoy. #1 being Theo James, aka Four, aka Hottie McHotterson. Oh, and Four’s mother was way too young to have given birth to him. Just FYI. #2 was the action, not including the ending. And #3 was the world-building. We actually got to see and experience the other factions and they were actually pretty cool.

Oh, and before I forget to mention this, I must add that Shailene Woodley has a horrible, raspy scream/yell thing that is unbelievably annoying.

So, all in all, I liked this book-to-movie adaptation. I think it’s good that they changed things up a bit considering how awful Alegiant is; they’re going to need this. If you’re going into this movie expecting a perfect rendition of the book, you might as well just forget it. Be prepared for a film more along the lines of a Matrix remake with a mix of the Divergent series.