Probably not for adults of either gender.

Rating: 4/10 (23 March 2014)

First I want to say I have no problem with a female protagonist, there have been quite a few movies like that lately and I have watched and enjoyed several. I do though notice how willingly the book/movie writers deviate from strong women characters to "isn't it great to have a boyfriend" characters. I assume this is for the younger audience who haven't had their idealism beaten down by the actual dating world.
So lets get to the good and bad points of this movie:

The relationship pacing in this movie was good.

The faction idea is awful, people in factions grow to distrust other factions, its human nature (think of how countries distrust each other, religions and even different high schools in the same city or cliques in the same high school).

The idea of the factionless is awful, so now you have a group your are actively oppressing, yup that wont cause problems.

So they don't allow divergence but they don't check for it until you are a certain age and then they just kill you? And no one seems to have a problem with that?

Dauntless are taught to be brave though taking huge risks and possibly suffering death and are constantly chastised for either being a coward or too reckless, which one is it? Think of the knife throwing scene or the zip line scene or the initial jump into darkness.

Reckless soldiers are bad soldiers, think of the armed forces in your country, they are nothing like these guys yet they are tasked with the same job.

They seem to have a few types of guns, most of them silly looking but they don't have any other type of weapons which I thought was odd.

I assume the factionless can have children, can they join a faction? If not then they are going to start multiplying. The dauntless are going to really cause a problem here by throwing out semi trained young men and women who can reproduce and have military training.

Why does that train seem to be wherever they need it to be? and does anyone else besides Dauntless ride it?

"Why does everyone keep saying that to me?" BANG! I laughed at that.

Chances are that people in different factions are going to fall in love with each other, they seem to be in close proximity enough for that to happen, how is that dealt with? What if a baby comes of that?

Mind control drug works on the soldiers for hours yet works on the old lady for like 5 minutes just so they can have a scene where she realizes what she has done. Also who wouldn't have backups?

I might have missed this but where are your skilled labourers falling under? Like your electricians or computer engineers etc.

What purpose is there for having all that mind control drug in the control center?

Son meets father that beat him which results in half a second of awkwardness then its over.

Tris wants to take it slow which I think is a good message for younger women, I didn't realize from the movie alone that this was only because she has intimacy problems.

Faction over blood: NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN, can you imagine siding with the people you picked carrots with over your family?

Four turns down a promotion to leadership twice but appears to have the same job as Eric in leadership any ways.

There is a relationship between Tris and the Old lady where she seems to think that Tris is special, Tris does get a lot more attention than anyone else does from this woman yet that comes to nothing.

Seriously I could go on and on and on but these things killed my ability to suspend disbelief like I was able to do for Hunger games, and when you cant suspend disbelief those two and a half hours that this movie is really really drags on (sort of like this review).