Stunningly average

Rating: 6/10 (22 March 2014)

I always click "may contain spoilers" in case I slip, but I try not to offer any. And as i write this review, I should admit that I never got around to finishing the book, so I can't say how true the film was to it. But I can say how true the film was to, well, films in general, and that was this: average. The pacing was poorly assembled. How the world came to be the way that it was was never explained. Why Kate Winslett was in the movie was unfathomable. This may be a spoiler, so stop reading if you wish to avoid such, but when our heroine and others are being trained in hand-to-hand combat, they adopt some sort of weird "I'm hugging a skinny person to my chest" stance with their hands and keep their legs almost entirely straight. This is guaranteed to have them get the crap kicked out of them. But the good points: the characters were consistent all the way through. Good point, I guess that was. My advice: Wait for this one to hit the premium channels. More advice: While Divergent was the first in a trilogy, and Hollywood has a way of making a trilogy into four or five or seven movies, don't expect a sequel. This really was that sort of weak.