a5c7b9f00b INSURGENT raises the stakes for Trisshe searches for allies and answers in the ruins of a futuristic Chicago. Tris (Woodley) and Four (James) are now fugitives on the run, hunted by Jeanine (Winslet), the leader of the power-hungry Erudite elite. Racing against time, they must find out what Tris&#39;s family sacrificed their lives to protect, and why the Erudite leaders will do anything to stop them. Haunted by her past choices but desperate to protect the ones she loves, Tris, with Four at her side, faces one impossible challenge after anotherthey unlock the truth about the past and ultimately the future of their world. Insurgent This movie is a sci-fi, action and drama movie based on a book by Veronica Roth, about a girl who is running with her boyfriend and brother from the enemy, while unleashing new secrets about her family&#39;s past and her mysterious Divergence. Sixteen-year-old Tris Prior (<a href=">Shailene Woodley) lives in a society divided into five factions. Each faction represents a different way of handling things. Erudite are the intelligent. Candor the honest. Abnegation the selfless. Amity the kind. Dauntless the brave. The Erudite have declared war against Abnegation, because they believe that they have important information about the Divergent, who are apparently dangerous for the faction-system. Haunted by her past, Tris must make choices that will change her. While running with her boyfriend Four (<a href=">Theo James)and her brother Caleb(<a href=">Ansel Elgort) from Erudite, who want to find her, because of her abnormal brain functioning. She and Four seek shelter in various faction headquarters with other Dauntless who have chosen to fight against Erudite&#39;s self-proclaimed, smug, superiority. Dauntless are plotting against Erudite, with other allies until Erudite begins to kill people if Tris doesn&#39;t sacrifice herself. Again, Tris must confront her inner demons and make a choice that may change everything. What she doesn&#39;t realize is that if she sacrificed herself the world they know may change forever. I will preface this by saying that I have not read the books. I did see the first movie and actually enjoyed it. I usually watch movies suchthis with a skeptic mind and the first one wasn&#39;t bad. This movie, however, was terrible. (Heavy spoilers roasting over an open fire to follow)<br/><br/>I&#39;ve heard that the movie deviates almost unforgivably from the book. If that&#39;s the case, I can&#39;t speak for the book but the movie script looks to have been written by a high-schooler, at best. <br/><br/>The movie is riddled with clichés: Main character with a dark inner battle raging due to prior decisions made (boring!). People (and armies) showing up just at the perfect time (forgivable once, not around the 5th time). Bad guys who couldn&#39;t hit a target 20 feet in front of them while shooting an automatic weapon (man those guys suck). And the ultimate &quot;faked death with poison/paralysis&quot; scene (wow that whole scene was bad). <br/><br/>Throughout the whole movie the main character (the annoying tom-boy girl), Tris, keeps being painted&quot;tough&quot; and &quot;deadly&quot;. She is neither of these. In fact, she is quite laughably the opposite. Could her personal trainers not put her through some weight-training classes? (Her hairstylist was definitely presenther hair looked like she just stepped out of a Hollywood salon right after the scene where she cut her OWN hair with a pair of rusty scissors….) It looks like she couldn&#39;t even do 10 push ups yet she was fighting people and saving people falling over ledges with ease. But she looks like a huge wuss! Her little girly grunts and squeals she made when fighting or doing &quot;action&quot; made me bust out laughing. And the scene where she breaks through the glass is meant to be bad-ass and instead just left me hoping she would bounce off the glass and fall flat on her back (man, I wanted to laugh so bad). <br/><br/>And probably the most unforgivable part of this whole movie was how POINTLESS everything was. Examples: They fight the faction-less on the train, killing several and doing serious damage to many more (not really sure how because Tris fights like a sissy girl). Then the main character, Four, says his own name and the leader of the vagabonds through bloodied teeth is like, &quot;Oh we cool bro. Never mind you just head-butted me in the face and killed my friends.&quot; (the Hell??) (Oh and Tris&#39;s brother is a huge pussy). They continue to fight hard and kill people to narrowly escape the perfectly- uniformed drone guards of the &quot;capital&quot; so that they can go in to hiding. Then the main character just gives herself up. I think it was because the villain was threatening to kill innocent people with her mind control devices (never seen that before), but it doesn&#39;t really matter. Then she&#39;s given the chance to escape by her double- double crossing &#39;friend&#39; (didn&#39;t see that coming) and yet she chooses to stay to open the mystery divergent box. Well what was the point of anything if you wanted to open it anyway??! I was DYING to contain my frustration. (also, how does the evil capital lady have this perfectly built divergent-box-opening proprietary chamber system, complete with bulletproof glass and mystery-box holding pedestal, just already set up? Does no one question this stuff???)<br/><br/>And to top it all off, the super-secret, must-be-preserved-at-all- costs message in the box, (the ENTIRE point of the movie): &quot;Divergents are cool, don&#39;t ostracize them. Oh, and the rest of humanity is living outside the wall. Cheers.&quot; What? No one has bothered to check this whole time?????? Gag.<br/><br/>Enough roasting. To conclude, lots of movies, even good ones, have clichés and information that you are just supposed to assume. But this movie was genuinely terrible. Maybe all the people reviewing this with an 7/10+ saw a different movie than I did. Greetings from Lithuania.<br/><br/>&quot;Insurgent&quot; (2015) is moons away from the quality of the first part, nevertheless it is an enjoyable flick. The kinda &quot;wow&quot; factor that was in the first movie has gone from this one, we don&#39;t get to know this world more in &quot;Insurgent&quot; - the story isn&#39;t that intriguing, nor it expands - it is actually a very simple story, which could probably have been finished with this second movie, but i heard there is a third one - if they are still hoping to match a success of &quot;Hunger Games&quot; series they should stop doing it - this particular installment &quot;Insurgent&quot; doesn&#39;t look or feel gritty or realistic at all. <br/><br/>Overall, &quot;Insurgent&quot; is not a bad movie, but falls short if comparing it to the first one, which i actually enjoyed very much. Acting is OK in here, but this young cast will definitely do better in the future, (except for Jai Courtney - once you are stiff, you will always be stiff). Kate Winslet, Octavia Spencer are clearly just for they paychecks herewell N.Watts. The special effects are OK, but nothing that special, although virtual reality scenes looked good. At the running time 1 h 50 min this movie drags here and there, but nevertheless it worth seeing it once, especially if you loved the first movie, if not - forget this one and don&#39;t even bother. Every scene is entwined in clunkiness.
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