Divergents threaten the system. It won't be safe until they're removed.

Rating: 4/10 (26 March 2014)

Reluctant to actually go out and see this movie I finally broken down and did it. Yes it was a mistake. A big mistake. So I walk into the theater Wednesday afternoon, and arrive early for the showtime. When the previous showtime ends and everyone walks out I wait about ten minutes to go into the theater. After waiting the ten minutes I walk into the theater and notice an older man dead asleep in the back row. This was that warning from God that you know this film was going to be just downright bad.
The story is yet another dystopian future film aimed towards the younger audiences who just really want to see this films for the young guys or the young girls. Frankly it seems like we get stories like this every year now. Back in the 70s and 80s we got amazing dystopian future films like Rollerball, Running Man, and Death Race 2000. As you may already know the stories are far better in those films than in this film being discussed here. In Divergent we get a lousy script tossed at the wall as the filmmakers hoped something would stick. Well when this slop was tossed onto the big screen nothing really stuck at all. Even the acting is completely forgettable minus an actor or two like Shailene Woodley and Kate Winslet. Mostly everyone else is phoning it in big time.
Junkie XL, whatever kind of name that is, did the music score for this film. And yet again it was more slop thrown at a wall hoping it would stick. It doesn't stick of course. We are subjected to trendy new age music that the younger generation might like instead of a Hans Zimmer type score, the executive producer of the score for this film. Zimmer is a huge name in musical scores and the creators of this likely wanted some name power. And Zimmer is a guy who rarely turns down checks.
Overall if you are in the category that this film is targeted towards, for example young teenage girls, then you will likely eat this film up. To the rest of us its slop on a movie screen. I'm all for dystopian future films being made, however I'm not interested in the ones that are only made to ride the success of a film that is nearly the same exact thing. This film is a big time pass, and frankly it is not even worth a rental.