If You Liked the Book, Don't Watch the Movie

Rating: 1/10 (25 June 2015)

Well, yea, this movie was Divergent all right. Diverged right off the rails from the book in a matter of seconds. If you read the book, and you liked the book, then don't watch this movie. It sucks! Bad acting. Bad story (cause they didn't follow the book). Bad choice of who to play the characters. I feel sorry for Kate Winslet, who played Jeanine. This is such a drop from Titanic or Finding Neverland.
I did like the actor choice OF Kate and Jai, as Eric. They were good. Theo was just all wrong for the part of Four. And Four is the reason I enjoyed the books so much. In the book he was a bad-ass, but a softie. I just did not feel that at all in the movie. It was hard to pick out who was who in the movie too. And I mean like Peter, Will, and Al. They just did not have developed characters in the movie.
The movie totally skipped over the fact that an initiate died jumping from the train to the roof. It didn't even go near Peter stabbing the one kid in the eye. It didn't develop Al well enough to know why he was part of the attack on Tris, or even why she was being attacked in the first place.
For God's sake Four wasn't even the one running the attack simulation in the movie.
The fighting part for stage one was a joke. And there was no relationship building between Four and Tris. Four's fear landscape I thought was a mess. He didn't even say "Can you figure out why they call me Four, and what my name is". I thought that was an important part of the book.
There is no way that I'm going to watch Insurgent after that. And I'm going to have to re-read Divergent to get the movie out of my head.
There is only one other book-to-movie movie that is worse off than this one, and that is Eragon. How this movie is getting a 6.8 rating on IMDb I'll never know. Most of those 273,000 people must not have read the book.