The Twilight Games

Rating: 4/10 (24 July 2014)

I would give this a 1/10, but that's just as ridiculous as giving movies like this a 10/10. First off dear friends, the new phenomenon, young adult action'ish films, can actually be done. well, even. this was not. I could not, if it cost me my life, sit through the last two twilight films, but the first twilight movie, i actually enjoyed. And what about The Hunger Games? i mean, that's actually a really good movie, and i can't wait for the next one (R.I.P. Philip Seymour Hoffman).
By looking at all of these user reviews, you should by now have come to conclusion that if you are a teenage girl, you CAN actually love this movie. But if you're like me, you yelled at your TV screen out of sheer frustration. you now, like watching a train wreck.
You know what i love? Movies that respect the viewers intelligence. I mean, its just lazy writing to me, that Shailene Woodley has to explain everything we're about to see, in the opening of the film. And after explaining this perfect system, this perfect world which is created after world war 3 happened (apparently), we as viewers immediately start putting up red flags. The amount of flaws in this "perfect" system, is just staggering. Also, where is the faction for Miscellaneous? You know, the tattoo artist's (who also has side jobs, working for the government, doing test's), the servants, postmen etc.
Anyway, i pretty much just liked Shailene in this, she did okay with the trash she had to work with, though i think action movies just doesn't suit her. yet. She's just not bad-ass enough. The scene where the mother dies (i said spoiler alert!) actually worked for me, its cliché and the "shootout" was so amateurishly done i don't even know where to start, but Tris'(Shailene Woodley) reaction, was just spot on in my opinion. It's just to bad she completely ruins it a few minutes later when her dad dies, and her reaction is supposed to be the cliché-full "You killed a male character that means a lot to me, now i'm as angry as can get!" and instead we see a kind of "my dad just died, meh, who cares"-reaction. The climatic scene where Tris points the gun to her own head and says, calmly, "its okay, i love you" was actually very good. i loved the fact that we didn't get the big "I LOVE YOU", cue the emotional score with all the violins etc. instead it was subtle and very well done. this is again ruined with the scene where Shailene fights Kate Winslet. i mean.. just.. delete that from the movie.. please..
Now! SFX! am i the only who think this movie looked outdated, graphically? Holy jebus it looked bad. also, makeup department - what went wrong in the "kiss scene"? Shailene looks like a prostitute who just got hold of a truckload of makeup, in a city where nobody has makeup (!?) The set's also look like crap. the futuristic feel completely falls through, and ends up looking like they ran out of budget and time.
And please don't hire Zoë Kravitz again. come on!
Just... re-watch the hunger games.. Divergence copies it so obviously and horribly, just watch the real thing.
I'm still looking forward to seeing Shailene Woodley again in future films, but this Divergence franchise MUST die... just, lay down and die.
Too bad the desired audience for this was teenage girls, it had a lot of potential. I love sci-fi, post apocalyptic, i love Shailene Woodley, i loved Limitless, i love Junkie XL and Hans Zimmer. This movie needs a remake in 15 years, with a much much much darker and gritty feel.