Another fine acclaimed novel on a big screen

Rating: 6/10 (29 March 2014)

Several years recently, there are many women's adventure novel put into motion picture. Not many of them got great response, the rest just failed and disappointed. "Divergent" is more likely in the middle between those films. It's not that horrible but not so special either. The theme is quite familiar and seems formulaic with other fantasy movie. It has an uninteresting plot, soulless and predictable at climax which could make some audiences feel exhausted after seeing this. Luckily "Divergent" is still engaging as a movie and an impressive performance by Shailene Woodley as Tris has also raised this first installment from disaster. Perhaps "Divergent" won't make me curious to see the sequel but the movie undeniably has a fine premise as opening franchise and got potential to be fascinating.