It's a better love story than Twilight, but not as good as Hunger Games.

Rating: 4/10 (22 March 2014)

"Die A Virgin" is the story of a girl trying to find her place in the world. But the factions want her dead for some reason or other, I think it's because she's can lucid dream while doing acid. It's not very well explained.
For $80,000+ million dollars this movie actually looks really good. It's a nice semi-original looking world, like a mix of "I Am Legend," with "Aeon Flux." All of the exterior shots were great, but interiors really needed some work. I don't think they could afford chairs or feature really. There's a lot of people in mono-colored rooms all wearing the same colored cloths. All the guns, whether they're the training guns, the real guns, or the future guns, all make the same fake zappy sound effect that make people just want to lay on the ground regardless of where they got shot. This removes the emotional impact to the audience has when someone actually gets shot so when people die it's like nothing happened at all. Actually the lead girl gets shot in the leg in one scene and is up and about running in the next. The hand to hand combat is nice but then there are these flat shootouts where people are just hiding behind cover, shooting at one another. These shootouts lack the creativity of a good action movie.
Her parents are throw away characters who show up for these bland shoot outs and ...
*** Spoilers *** ... die almost immediately. Shailene Woodley is a decent lead and does a good job of acting when her mother dies, but because this is just a women that might as well just have a name tag that says "MOM" on it, I just didn't care. They needed a tender moment or two to establish what this women actually meant to Tris, a little thing she did as a child, or something with her hair, a saying or something that becomes her last words, Something! She has a tattoo I think so that's something but not exactly the same as being the women who put a flower in her hair when she was young. It doesn't help that she's wearing gray for the entire movie either! They're just bland characters that get shot and I really think it's just to spice up these shootouts? So the end of the movie happens and they kill all the people in the room except for Kate Winslet's character. And they forget to kill her on the way out, I'm guessing because they need to make two squeals out of this piece of crap. This is the women who basically started a war and orchestrated the mass genocide of Tris's family and faction. I really wished this movie had the balls to have Tris grab her by the hair, drag her out into the street, and effing execute her for her crimes against humanity... but nope, we have to complete this lack luster 90 minute love story between Tris and Four. She has to say things like "Both my parents died today," apparently without any tears coming out of her eyes either! They have to flee the city on this run away train no one seems to be driving for some reason or other too.