Review of Allegiant (2016) by Ryan T — 01 Jul 2016

I really wanted to love this movie, but it was downright disappointing. If you havent read the books, im sure you will enjoy this movie more. The director basically changed the whole storyline. I expected changes, but not this much.

They took away many scenes from the book and added many others that were not. Im glad he will not be directing the final movie "Ascendant". "Allegiant" has good action sequences, most of which did not happen in the book.

For example, the scene where they left the city and were being chased by Edgar, the scene where Tobias was in the aircraft and assumed he was heading back to the city, the scene where Tobias was being trained by Nita etc.

One big action sequence they could have left in the movie, was the one where Nita tried breaking in to get something and Uriah got severely injured. There were lots of humor throughout thanks to what they added to Peter's character.

(Peter was not meant to be the 'funny guy' in the book) They could have left in scenes like Zeke and Tobias breaking Caleb out of prison. Tobias and Zeke had some interesting dialogue in that scene.

(in the book) Also the exchange between Tobias and Peter. I feel that in the movie, his (Tobias) character was really boring. Characters like Matthew and Nita were extremely different from the books. In the movie, Matthew is this secretary type character and Nita became a "soldier".

Peter also turned good in the book, not helping David as shown in the movie. The director also changed the verdict for Marcus, Marcus was supposed to be banished, not get his memories erased. The whole GD and GP situation was also not as secretive as they portrayed it in the movie.

The movie also exaggerated lots of things. They pushed 'futuristic' too far and some things were a little weird, like the protective bubble thing and the liquid that Tris was suffocated by in the shower.

In the book, the bureau was not that futuristic and they didn't use aircraft that often. Wish they kept the water and stone sculpture too. I found it interesting that when Tris was wearing the white dress with heels, she reminded me of Jeanine.

Overall, I would rate this movie 6/10. For goodness sakes, if you are making a movie based on a book, FOLLOW THE BOOK!