decent

Rating: 7/10 (17 April 2017)

This wasn't too bad a movie. Let's see if you find yourself drawing comparisons to The Hunger Games. A dystopian future (how many of those have we seen?) set in Chicago, where life is divided into 5 sanctions, and Tris's "test" in inconclusive and she winds up choosing the "dauntless" sanction and surviving a rather brutal militaristic set of tests to get in. It turns out her mother went thru the same thing.
The movie features decent action scenes and good performances as well as some good scenes where they try to "scare" the people trying to get into dauntless. I like the latter scenes. This is basically a movie about fitting in. Based on the other reviews, you will either love it or hate it. The cast worked well together.
** 1/2 out of ****