Review of Allegiant (2016) by Emily K — 17 Sep 2017

Allegiant, once again hollywood has chosen to split the last book of a three book series into 2 parts. With audiences already unhappy with the last book in the divergent series splitting it into 2 parts was clearly not the best idea. The plot in "Allegiant" starts off with Tris portrayed by "Shailene Woodley" and her friends escaping the ruins of Chicago only to find out whats beyond the wall is all waste land. After x number of hours of walking through the wasteland and invisible gate opens with soldiers who take Tris and her friends in. The leader of the Bureau, David, become allies with tris to test her, as she is 100% pure and everyone else is damaged. The story then drags on for about 30 minutes with nothing vital happening in the story. Four then finds out that David is evil and tries to persuade Tris to come with her back to Chicago. Tris then realises that Four is telling the truth as she finds out that David is going to erase Chicago. She then turns on David and goes back to Chicago with her friends to stop David. "Allegiant" defiantly proves itself to be the weakest in the series by having an extremely slow and useless plot and the realisation of the franchise over staying its welcome. "Shailene Woodley" in this film is obviously over the slow and cliché scripts of these movies and you can clearly see it to. "Miles Teller" on the other hand is basically the life of this movie, with funny lines and an unusual sense of humour it starts to fell like a comedy instead of a sci-fi as everything else just fades to the back mind.

Some visual effects in this movie are sloppy for an estimated $110 million dollar budget but some also fade in and you can barley tell it's cgi. What really annoyed me with this instalment is that David reminds me a lot of President Coin out of "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay", as he seems good at the start of the film but in the end turns bad. Overall "Allegiant" proves itself to be the weakest in the franchise so far and does not in any way make you excited for the last instalment. I give "Allegiant" a 2/10.