Rather Enjoyable

Rating: 6/10 (11 August 2014)

I enjoyed this movie, through the trash I've seen from the horrible Twilight and Hunger Games movies, I was surprised.
One thing I love about movies is when they makes the "threat" feel real. These bad guys that essential want to kill of a whole The Nice Faction (There are five factions: http://divergent.wikia.com/wiki/Factions )... FOR BEING TO KIND, is a pretty big douchbag move. Oddly enough, it's the Intelligent faction who, together with the leadership of the Military Faction, who wants to do this. I wish I would have read the book before I watched the movie, feels like I am missing some crucial backstory here. Like why would the intellectual ones go "Let's Fascist this up!" after a lot of thought. What kind of philosophical thinking survived in this future?
But I think this movie does many things right: The main character goes from being helpless to rather bad ass "You are not going to shoot me" Henchmen nr32 says. "Why does everyone keep saying that?!" BOOM, from our heroine. Compared to Twilight and Hunger Games whiny and unconvincing ladies.
The characters presented are everything from stereotypical to believable, you know what is going to happen with them but the movie still keeps you interested in what happen next. You care (mostly) what happens to these characters, not just a screen in the sky (Hunger Games) that tells you that some character that you didn't know died.
Overall I enjoyed the movie, but there are some points that doesn't make sense. Doesn't the other factions have anything to say about all what's going on? Like I wrote earlier "What kind of philosophical thinking survived in this future?" What was it that made the Intelligent+Military Leaders go, "We should kill those Peaceloving guys who help the freaks (Divergents) and Factionless?"
But I hope future movies will clear this up (should prolly read the book) and I hope it is some twisted Anarcho-Dwarinism like "Only the strong should survive, the divergent and factionless are the weak and should die". But that rules out any kind of humanitarian thinking...
//Cheers, the Academic.