A fast-pace failure

Rating: 3/10 (27 March 2014)

If it were not for the few action scenes and the obvious will for the unknown part of the cast to finally break trough in Hollywood, this rating would have easily been a 2.
Divergent has been the online hype for the past six months, and there is honestly nothing that stands up to whatever buzz it has created. It is a demoralizing vulgarization of master pieces like 'A Brave New World'. Except it has been very unfortunately mixed with 'Twilight', 'The Hunger Games', and that it now lies somewhere between bad and worst.
To think that experienced and successful actresses like Kate Winslet and Ashley Judd signed in to co-star with a whole bunch of TV stars - mostly big screen wannabees - on the basis of such a terrible scenario is pretty self-explanatory in itself: Divergent has only one objective, and that is to create a cash cow like the other recent teenage franchises.
It could be called sad, but in the end, there is nothing wrong with doing money. The only problem nowadays is that poor writers just loot their plots from inspiring master pieces from the past. With Divergent, Hollywood keeps on being Culture's Tomb Raider.
Actually, it is sad.