Felt rushed, no backbone

Rating: 4/10 (5 April 2015)

Unlike the book, the movie jumps straight in, head first into concrete. Anyone who has ever read the book would know that there is at least 15 (38 minutes of reading, but who wants to watch a 12 hour movie?) minutes missing from the intro. It goes right to the aptitude test. If I had not read the book, I would have been thoroughly confused. There are huge gaps in each scene as well. Not enough foundation building between scenes, fast forwarding through important details required to understand the actual story.
Much of the back-story isn't revealed until the second and third titles, but if they had done it right, this would have hardly mattered, but as rushed as this film was, there isn't enough to leave the watcher satisfied. They would have been better off making a two part movie to Divergent as they are to Allegiant.
Aside from this, there are also several parts from the book they have altered that should not have been, such as the way Tori acted when finding out Tris was divergent, and same goes for the response when Eric was down talking Four during the attack simulation, right when Tris shot Eric. Here it shows Four knocking down Max but in the book, Max was not present in this scene, an unknown female that was with Eric whom Four shot in the leg (Max was in the book just not part of that scene). The changes are small compared to what they have done to Insurgent, and overall wouldn't, or rather, shouldn't have changed the outcome of the overall story of the Divergent trilogy, but nonetheless noticeable changes.
Of all this, I felt like the movie was incomplete and not really worth the money.