Title: Divergent
Chronological number: 1 (series)
Director: Neil Burger
Starring: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Ansel Elgort, Kate Winslet, Maggie Q, Zoë Kravitz, Miles Teller
Review:
The sole reason why I watched the movie is because the book was really good and I'm a great big fan of Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort (in which both will also star in the movie adaptation of John Green's bestselling novel 'The Fault in our Stars').
So the story is set in a dystopian world where there are factions representing virtues such as bravery, selflessness, peacefulness, honesty and intelligence. By the age of sixteen, they will have to undergo a sorting wherein they have to find a faction that will suit their simulated dominant virtue. But there are also those people who exhibit more than one virtue and they are called Divergent.
First of all, I did not like the way they cut off the part where Peter (played by Miles Teller) was not portrayed as an antagonist, he was just shown as an antagonist in the later part of the movie which doesn't help the progress of the story. Second is how the tattoos don't seem authentic, the book described it as something painful but worth it, the movie portrayed it like it was inked in henna. And third was how the real situation and brutality of the Dauntless initiation was overlooked greatly.
Yet despite the negative things I saw, one that also set the movie was how Tris showed Jeanine near the end of the movie that she's not a soft cookie which made me think this movie may not be bad afterall.
Rating: ★★★★☆
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