A watchable film, but it drags and bogged down by YA clichés

Rating: 5/10 (11 April 2014)

I will tell you something; I have not read the book, so therefore I cannot really compare much to the source material (my friends have stated that the source material is far better than the movie).
This movies starts bad with an unoriginal explanation of a Utopian scenario, which we have seen before in The Hunger Games and read before in The Giver. I mean, when can we have a YA movie without dystopia?!
After that we are given factions (which serves as a plot element) and then we find Beatrice Prior (Shailene Woodley) as a stereotypical girl who has absolutely NO character (besides being obviously raised by her mother and father, LIKE EVERYONE ELSE) and then while she is in one of the factions (Dauntless) she starts to suspect from Four (Theo James) that some sort of coup'de etat was happening...I mean this is another case of ripping off Deus Ex! (the game)
Another thing I would like to criticize is the tendency that you have to put music with extremely annoying singing in the movie that has absolutely NO relevance to the plot. I mean, I think the songs that were put in the movie were supposed to make one of those "intended audience members" happy because the executives knew that this film was not well made and forced the editor to put in this absolutely unnecessary music!
Now, if you dare me to say something good about this, I shall in the following.
The fight scenes remind me lots of Fight Club, the romance is actually built up lots, and the whole cinematography reminded me of Terrence Malick. And I did like one scene after Prior is ambushed by some thugs and then when one of them apologizes, she not only declines but she actually tells them to never talk to her ever again. That moment, for me was a huge show stealer. Unfortunately, for me, I cannot really like this film and I do not recommend it, but the film cannot be bad when a scene like the one I just mentioned plays perfectly.