Review of Divergent (2014) by Franz H — 14 Nov 2015

I think this movie was aimed at 20-somethings who don't really want to think too much when they watch a movie, because it's about a group of above-average-looking 20-somethings who are trying to save the world or something like that.

And I guess one of my problems is that I can never buy the premise that 20-somethings, who in the real world are generally more interested in taking selfies to post on FB than becoming experts with automatic weapons and being able to topple regimes, are the ones who will save the world.

Heck, there was one scene where the main character, a 20-something girl, was running from a group of 10 or so armed men with automatic weapons, while she was weaponless, and they're spraying her with bullets.

But they all miss, from a range of maybe 30 feet. And she runs thru some double doors, shuts them, and the entire door is riddled with bullets. But she runs away unhurt. Yeah, right. There was no character development whatsoever, and I couldn't care less about any of them.

It was about some factions remaining in a post-apocalyptic world, and the factions are descriptively named stuff like Candor and Dauntless and Erudite and Divergent and Amity and stuff like that, because I guess the members of the factions are all "erudite" and "dauntless" and "amicable" and stuff.

And of course, the cool ones who don't belong to any faction, and therefore will be the heroes to save the world, are the Divergents. Geez, why not hit us over the head with the point you're trying to make?.

...I guess it's part of a series, which I've never seen, so maybe that's why I'm coming in cold. But the movie was terrible. Boring, and it comes across as a badly done, made-for-TV action flick designed for teenagers.