By far the best thing about the first Divergent film was Shailene Woodley's hair. Here is my review of that. That lasted about 3 minutes into the new film before she goes nuts with a set of blunt shears.
At first that is just a terrible mess but during the filming cycle her hair is recut and styled, and either she starts on a gym programme or the amount of running and jumping during filming starts to show. Clothes that fit tightly in some scenes then hang off her in other scenes, and the more toned her butt gets the more obvious that becomes. IN the meantime her spiked pixie cut gets wilder every time the camera angle changes until one point where she wakes up in the prison with a full Jedward.
Theo James 'Four' and Ansel Elgort 'Caleb' are completely pointless in terms of the story. I assume they are in to attract more teenage girls to come and watch with their brains switched off by hormonal overload.
Miles Teller's 'Peter' changes sides so often that neither side killing him has already passed the epic stupidity of an Austin Powers villain.
Naomi Watts obviously sets herself up as the villain for the rest of the series, but her main contribution to the affair is to show up everyone else's wooden acting skills everytime she is on screen. Sorry Kate Winslet and Ashley Judd but you are on the list with 'everyone else' for this statement. I would quite like to see her and Miles teller just go on a murder-binge, clear out the rest of the cast and take over the world and do something sensible with it. Make sure they get the script team and director when slaughtering the cast.
And like the first movie we continue with plot holes all over the place. One of them mentions that he often sees lights outside the walls, yet everyone blindly believes that there is nothing out there, until she opens a magic box and a 15 second speech from a 300 year old hologram shifts the entire world view? If the founders are so smart and powerful why did they come up with such a stupid set up? The child is too young to be developed and screened (see Film 1) so why is she judged as Divergent? How does this handheld widget suddenly produce massively better results than the huge amount of testing in movie 1? Why do half of Dauntless work with Janine and half against her, especially the half that were brainwashed and released, why would they still help her?! Why is the rest of the city, and most people's clothing, so dilapidated but the faction buildings are super high tech futuristic?
I have ranted a bit now, but this is actually still a better film than the first one. I still didn't like it, but I didn't hate it quite as much. 5 out of 10 from me.
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