True to the Book

Rating: 10/10 (23 March 2014)

I really expected this to be another crappy book-to-movie film, as I'm used to at this point. After reading the Divergent series a couple times and obsessing until the movie out, of course I went the night of the premiere, a little leery because I didn't want to get my hopes up. There were, of course, not ALL of the major character developments in the film or perfect events to keep everything rated PG-13, however all of the most important parts of the book were in the movie. The acting was actually surprisingly good (I'm looking at terrible b-2-ms, Twilight, Hunger Games, Eragon etc etc) and the casting was perfect, save for scrawny Peter? But other than that, the amount of racial and gender diversity was refreshing, the costumes unique and somehow modern and futuristic, and the movie ended on slightly less of a cliffhanger than the book.
And you wanna know why?
Because the AUTHOR helped PRODUCE IT.
10/10, Recommending to everybody I know and looking forward to buying the film on Blu-Ray.
Oh, also, even if you haven't read the book (took a friend who hadn't) it was still bad ass. He said he liked it more than the Hunger Games because "At least Tris isn't a whiny b*tch.)