Review of Divergent (2014) by Julie S — 10 Jul 2016

I barely finished this movie. It's unbearable. Divergent is, of course, an adaptation of a YA novel, Divergent. It's very obvious that it's a YA novel and not a good book, because of all the cliches this genre has to offer (with a few books being exceptions).

The story follows Beatrice, or Tris, who has reached a certain age where all the kids have to choose which faction to join. Oh, this is another example of a world set in the future where everyone is divided into groups/factions/districts, whatever you want to call it.

Tris' original faction is Abnegation and she chooses Dauntless, some crazy mofos who do parkour and fighting, it's really not important, I won't even try to explain the other factions. But, in order to have a plot even more similar to other movies/books of this type, she's different.

Oh yeah, she's a divergent! She shows abilities of all the factions and that makes her a threat or something, it's really stupid. So, yeah, all divergents must be killed because they're different.

*sigh* Speaking of cliches, all the main characters are teenagers who are trying to destroy the "government" run by adults who control everything. For a second there I thought I was reviewing The Hunger Games, which is a much better series than this crap.

But what kind of a YA adaptation would it be without romance, eh? Eh? A good one probably. Tris is in love with her trainer/boss/something, who goes by the name Four (his real name is Tobias) and yes, he does take his shirt off and has sex with Tris, because, that's mandatory for these types of movies.

Also the fact that our characters always look like they just had their hair done, just finished doing their makeup etc. etc. makes this movie even more unrealistic and painful to watch. I hate everything about this movie.

The main ingredient for a good movie is originality. There is nothing original about this movie. Nothing. The CGI is pretty good, though. So, what have we learned from this movie? If you make a movie based on an overrated, popular YA novel which basically uses every single cliche possible for this genre, you're gonna earn a lot of money because teens are still stupid enough to think this type of movies/books are good and something totally groundbreaking with great messages and characters.

All in all, a horrible abomination of a movie with characters you don't care about, too much exposition, cliched story with cliched outcomes and a cliche ending which obviously sets up a sequel, which I cannot wait to see! And yeah, I did read the book.

It's not better. If anything, it's even more horrible since it takes longer to finish it. Don't watch this, I beg of you.