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Sadly the Divergent Trilogy is going a bit downhill here. Now I must say that the acting from everybody was decent though I feel that they could have made more use of Octavia Spencer as she is absolutely amazing but was given quite a small role and could have been used more.
The visual effects were good I suppose but the ending fight sequence was appalling in terms of CGI. The story was ok aswell but overall it felt more like it was focusing too much on hyping it up for the third movie rather than focusing on its own plot.
Way too much cliché... Almost annoying at times. And they overdid it with eye staring moments and almost get caught because eye staring for no apparent reason...
Good action scenes though. Might be better boozed up.
well first one was much better with plenty of mysterious and what is that haircut!!!!!!
Even after all these years, that haircut for Tris still feels like it should have been ILLEGAL
7.5/10 - Not as good as the first one. Quite some action and a few twists but it wasn't that good/special.
Tbh the scenes I liked the most are all about revenge: When Tobias beats and then kills Eric, when Tris beats Peter, and when Evelyn kill Jeanine. I disliked all three of these characters pretty much from the point they've been introduced in the first movie.
The main non-revenge scene I liked was the trial at Candor.
But the most satisfying thing was when the irony was on Jeanine :D
Storyline is a little flat, no much really happens, BUT, the special effects team have done an awesome job; very cool!
In stead of it getting more interesting, it got less interesting. It lost the magic that Divergent had, maybe it was in her hair?
I mean I really love some parts where Triss shows strong sad/broken/angry feelings because you could really see the pain in her. Im just a little disappointed in how the movie was overall. It had some reeeally cliche moments, the ''action'' was not that powerful. It was all really messed up compared to the story and the first movie. They could have done a great movie but unfortunately, it just didn't blow me away really. The good parts in this movie was 7-8/10- But the whole movie was a little meh, so I give it somewhere around 6/10
What a huge letdown compared to Divergent... This totally feels like a Mockingjay Part 1 ripoff. Story is not really developing. There's not enough action but mostly some cliché drama between the two main characters. Not to say that they stole a lot of elements from The Matrix and Inception for the cinematography (which is still the strongest part of the movie). Last but not least: Most disappointing ending ever.
The most frustrating, boring and tiresome movie ever. Completely unrelated to the book as well, and not just a few chances here and there, but really, truly, completely unrelated. It felt like an endless nightmare and I couldn't stop checking the time. I'm not sure what happened here, the first movie was so good!
Was not as good as the first film, but I wouldn't say I didn't enjoy it. Was an interesting concept, but it did sort of feel like it was dragging... The whole film was around this box, could've been dealt with quicker than that.
I didn't read the books so I can't compare it to those, but as a movie, it wasn't too bad. Definitely worth watching to get answers from the first film, even if it does leave you with more questions than answers.
Would recommend watching to someone who has seen the first one and has a spare 2 hours they don't care about.
6/10
25/03/2019
Why is everyone so happy to discover that they're part of a 200 year experiment that wants to find divergents when they aren't one? Let's all rush out into the arms of the race we've been isolated from. Are they all hoping that they've changed their minds and they're looking for everyone who isn't divergent too?
What a strangely pointless story line. Humans have become robots only capable of one direction of thought process that can be categorised. So let's encourage them to isolate themsleves with their own factions whilst we wait until someone who isn't a robot to come along.
In for a penny in for a pound; after the lacklustre first chapter of this new franchise (Divergent) Hollywood hits us with another, Insurgent. I would ask why but it would be like asking why someone would want to print money.
What was already a laughably bad idea for a dystopian young adult thriller gets another 2 hours to prove itself, and fails to do so.
You may recall that in the previous film the world has been divided into ‘factions’ based on personality, and our hero Tris (Shailene Woodley) is found to be someone who doesn’t fit in. The shameful grab at teenager’s hearts continues here, where Tris now has to… oh god what actually happens in this film?
It’s unclear what the goal of the first hour is, come to think of it, but as things go on it comes to light that Kate Winslet has a box that can only be opened by the most special person in the world. Wonder who that’s going to be.
It’s all a good excuse to watch people running about for a while. They even get to wheel out the old ‘the protagonist faces a series of tests’ trope from the last film and every film like this ever.
The production values also seem to have dropped, one impressive aspect from the first film. There’s less care gone into the animation and some of the green screen work in particular is sloppy. At times one wonders if we are seeing a ‘making-of’ video rather than the real deal.
The performances are just as bland as before except this time the writing is much poorer, so even the stronger actors struggle to make things interesting. Shailene Woodley was entertaining in the past, now she’s one-dimensional and seems to have semi-given up on the job.
Kate Winslet, we know, is a fine actress. Here she wears a pretty dress and does little else. She gets the same three camera angles over and over again which isn’t something you’d normally notice the first time watching a film. It’s like they just shot all her stuff on one day and tried to pretend it happened at different points in time.
There must be some redeeming factors to this mess? Well, not really. Insurgent is not a terrible film but it fails in all its endeavours to entertain or move the audience. In an age where one can watch almost anything that’s ever been made Insurgent commits the biggest crime of all - wasting our time.
http://benoliver999.com/film/2015/08/14/insurgent/
This movie is pretty bad ... Compared to the previous one it's bad , not compared to the previous one it's still bad ... (It could interest you if you are a teenage girl though ... )
Perfectly acceptable entry in the YA franchise. Only non Divergents failed to enjoy it.
So even after hating the first movie, I still watched the sequel last night. In one simple word (again): Yuck.
A few thoughts:
The main character is a whining cry baby.
Every scene between her and her man is just crying or loving embrace or both.
Can the brother show some remorse for selling out his sister?
This time I'm stopping here. I'm not getting conned into watching more of this shit.
This is definitely not for me..
I am pleasantly surprised. Almost every comment or review here is somewhat or completely against this movie, though I can understand why. However; from my perspective I actually enjoyed this. Even if they did take elements from other movies and twist them a little (as mentioned in another comment.)
I have not read the books so my thoughts are that strictly on the movie. After reading the comments here and watching it here are my thoughts.
Consider the time between the two chapters, so to speak. It looked to me that it must of been only a few months between the end of the fist movie and the beginning of this one. Tris was still grieving over the death of her parents and she was feeling guilty for killing her friend. I for one couldn't and don't blame her for feeling that way, nor came I fault the creators for taking that direction with the movie.
The hair cut, to me symbolized Tris' growth and evolution into who she wants to be and not conforming to what society thinks she should be, like the factions. As a side note, it could have also been that the actress was working on another movie which required the look before starting this one, OR she herself felt more comfortable with it. Who knows.
The dialog was nothing deep or profound but at least it flowed and was believable from scene to scene in my opinion. It wasn't a few words and then action. It was a conversation, and I wasn't bored by it.
Yes this movie is aimed at teens and yes things may feel dumb downed in terms of intellect for many but this is a series and hopefully it is done right in terms of helping the characters evolve and grow. Stories are retold in so many different ways for different generations. Comparisons will be made. For myself I am looking forward to the next movie.
uugh a soap opera with shinier stuff! I'm to old for this shit.
The end... yeah we're part of an experiment and were isolated from humankind for 200 years. yippie... idiocy
Can't believe this movie is rated 73% atm.
bad acting, bad story, bad ending ... no, really bad ending
only watched until the end, to find out if this movie make sense. but it doesn't.
I want to say something positive... hm. ah there're 2-3 nice special effects.
boring af, such a letdown
I liked it, j like it more than the first
If you liked the first, you will likely still enjoy this one despite the small step backwards. Pros and cons, but this is definitely the middle piece of a trilogy which makes it hard to stand on its own.
Rating: 2/5 - 65% - Not Recommended to Everyone
What is this very bad plot for this movie? How Peter comes and asks Janine to work with her and give him all the powers, then he changes after he was a hateful person To be a good person In less than a minute There are a lot of holes in this movie that does not respect the viewer's mentality
Derivative tripe, the second chapter of the Divergent series, Insurgent, is a generic and passionless sci-fi thriller. Picking up where the last film ended, Tris and her friends go on the run and are branded as renegades; meanwhile Jeanine searches for a Divergent with the ability to unlock a mysterious cube that contains a message from the founders. The script is pretty weak and a rather poor adaptation of the novel. And Shailene Woodley is wholly unsuited to be an action hero; giving a bland and vacant performance. Additionally, the special effects are remarkably bad for a big budget film: as the CGI backgrounds really stand out and look fake. Still, the fight scenes and chases are exciting and action-packed. A lackluster film that doesn’t really go anywhere, Insurgent fails to deliver a compelling adventure.
A good second instalment, but I do feel it's dragging out a bit. Miles Teller makes this series for me - his comedic, class clown/bully character adds a funny touch to an otherwise serious dystopian drama.
It seems this is a 3 part trilogy;
Divergent (2014)
Insurgent (2015)
Allegiant (2016)
F**king teens.
To those who haven't seen my first review of 'Divergent' well basically I thought the movie was alright and I was kind of surprise that I didn't hate it, as I thought I will just because of these stupid books adaptations that we get today trying to catch some money or try to be the next 'Harry Potter', which normally backfires. I wasn't like full on excited for Insurgent just because the trailer looked pretty bad and really laughable with it's goofy CGI. But that didn't stop people getting really excited for it and that's most of the teens or just the people who have read the book are here to support or b'tch about the film, whatever comes to they minds. After seeing the movie myself, I have to say that I'm not really impress at all with the film, actually to be honest I think this movie is a bloated mess.
Let me just get the positive stuff out the way first: Shailene Woodley did a decent job and performed some of the action scenes very well.
Octavia Spencer was really good in this movie. She's in a couple of scenes in the movie and it's a same as she's a brilliant actress only getting small parts in recent movies. But anywhere, she was great for what scenes she had. The rest of cast like Miles Teller, Theo James, and Ansel Elgort all did great as well.
Now for the flaws: The visual effect's at times look fine for the most part, but for most of the movie the effect's look a bit unfinished like it's only one more thing to do before the visual effect's are done. It looks laughable and over the top during it's action scenes. So overall visual effect's not so good.
I'm not going to spoil the ending to the movie but let me just say it ended in a way that it's trying to be like 'Inception'...actually the whole film is trying to be 'Inception' when you think about it. The book came out around the time 'Inception' came out, so maybe the author coped the groundbreaking elements from that movie.
Overall rating: 'Insurgent' sometimes doesn't know what it wants to be. To those who like the movie that's fine, but to me, I will forget this movie about a couple weeks time.
A much more boring affair than its predecessor, which isn't good given the latter's own issues. Of all my problems from 'Divergent', only the score improves here.
Shailene Woodley's Tris is somehow a little unlikable in 'Insurgent', despite being the protagonist - many of her character motivations are a little up-and-down. Theo James (Four) is roughly the same, though Ansel Elgort's Caleb is utterly pointless; not helped by the filmmakers taking a strange direction with him.
Miles Teller (Peter) gets more screen-time, not entirely sure why though - and that's coming from someone who is fine with him in the last production. Kate Winslet remains massively underused as the main villain, I don't connect with her at all.
The premise in this second film of the series is underwhelming and not all that exciting, making use of the factionless is the right step but they don't exactly nail giving them a larger part.
With all that said, I do actually like how this concludes. It should set up a strong third film. Right...? I'll soon find out! It is, so far, a missed opportunity of a franchise.
boring, boring, boring, boring, boring
I enjoyed this more than Divergent. The special effects were awesome and Tris proved even more to be a very heroic character. The plot felt deeper than Divergent felt to me.
more disappointing than the first movie
As I did in my review of the first instalment, in this movie series I should probably point out that I have not read the books. Some people claim that this movie do not follow the books but, obviously, I cannot comment on that. So my review is based on the movie and the movie alone. I have to confess that I mostly watched this movie because I did watch the first instalment and felt obliged to see where the story went.
This movie have quite a few fairly cool special effects, especially the ones when Tris is in the virtual reality world trying to open the cube with the message to the inhabitants in the closed up city. Unfortunately this pretty much sums up the good parts of the movie.
As with Divergent I found this movie to be fairly mediocre. One reviewer said that this was a movie dumbed down for the teenage audience. Unfortunately I feel that he was right. Also unfortunately I think many teenagers are a lot smarter than Hollywood believe they are.
The plot is, well, mediocre. The acting is fairly meh. The main character, Tris, really lacks any form of charisma and spends most of the movie going around in some state of melancholy feeling sorry for herself and everything that happens around her. Apart from Four most of the people were behaving immaturely, cluelessly, froze up or panicked whenever something nasty happened and switched allegiances back and forth like you changed shirts.
When Tris finally opened the cube I was expecting something cool and unexpected. What we got was a rather dull message about the city and its “purpose”. I complained in my review of divergent that we got absolutely no background information as to how the people had ended up in this ridiculous situation with a closed city and these factions that I still do not understand what they were supposed to solve. The message was supposed to explain this but it explained absolutely nothing except that the divergents were some kind of purpose or solution.
The ending? Well again this is a book series so it is not surprising that it ends in somewhat of a cliffhanger but it was really a cheap ending, one that you would expect from a TV series episode.
So I cannot say that I liked the movie very much. The virtual reality special effects scenes where fairly cool but that was about it.
Worst than the first... Too many clichés, boring, and the few action scenes it has are bad. I don't know how I watched the whole movie.
If you are left with nothing to watch give it a try
not great. Good special effect but plot could have been a lot better
Tried to watch this with an open mind.. but I'm just so biased when it comes to this Shailene chick and her generalization that feminism is about manhatred. Don't even know how she could've gotten such huge parts in movies with her attitude. I hope to see an attitude change in the future, otherwise all movies containing her will be shitty.
Also. This movie was just too "hasty" some parts don't even make sense. Makes me want to read the books, they're probably a lot better than this.
super cheesy movie with great special effects
hunger games ripoff, but still great :D
The beginning was really slow, there were a few parts where a certain individual would take at least five bullets, but walks away without a scar and quite a few over dramatic scenes. I didn't really enjoy Divergent all that much, but I had to continue watching just to satisfy my curiosity. The special effects were enjoyable to watch, but it's 2015 and we know what the film industry is capable of. I would really look forward to sitting down and having my mind blown away by a completely original and captivating story, both of which are not present in this movie. Three cheers for Miles Teller though. He's the main reason I was able to watch the entirety of this film.
I did not understand what i was seeing, very confusing
Well, It was good, but not good as the first one was. Too much holo stuff..
Faster than I thought it would be history, to see where you take the third. It has been well
Shout by Zackarias FranklinVIP OG 12BlockedParentSpoilers2015-03-31T18:41:05Z
Everyone is missing the most important part of the movie.. That haircut.. W-H-Y?!