Review of Insurgent (2015) by Midge115 — 22 Mar 2015

I don't even know where to begin with this. Video-game special effects, a 47-year-old Naomi Watts playing the mother of 31-year-old Theo James (implying Four's mother was 16 when he was born...? Possible, but the actors appear to be the same age on screen, as Naomi Watts is made up to look extremely young and it is quite distracting), terrible (I REPEAT, TERRIBLE, HORRENDOUS) dialogue that treats the audience like a bunch of mindless idiots (maybe they are), Woodley's constant switching between a strong female lead and a weak, helpless damsel in distress when it is convenient for the plot, the gaping plot holes and unexplained questions, as well as a large amount of obvious errors (for instance, Woodley cutting off her hair with crude scissors while looking in a mirror yet walking away with a hairstyle that would require an electric razor and a professional cosmetologist).

It doesn't get much lower than this, folks. Don't even get me started on how this movie and book series was just a cash cow jumping onto the Hunger Games bandwagon to begin with. Don't get me wrong, The Hunger Games is a fantastic trilogy that I believe will go down in history as American literature (I'm dead f*cking serious- it's changed the attitude of the country)- but Veronica Roth saw it as a trend she could jump onto in the world of young adult literature so she could earn some green.

Always knew the books were terrible, didn't think it was possible for the movies to be even worse. Ah, but they are.