Mother To The Rescue!

Rating: 4/10 (7 April 2015)

Ho-hum!.... So, ask me if I was at all surprised (even slightly) when (guess what?) Divergent's totally, starry-eyed, little tale of the future was conveniently twisted into yet another full-blown Romeo & Juliet story where, this time around, teenage jocks (both male & female) plunged head-long into serious training to become the coveted "Dauntless Ones".
And was I at all surprised to find out that Divergent's futuristic society was, once again, a nation that blindly preached peace through total threat and enforcement of violence?.... No. I was not surprised. Not in the least.
If you ask me this utterly pretentious, $85 million production was just another version of "The Host", but, of course, this time it was all done on a much grander scale, with definite shades of "Starship Troopers" thrown in for good measure.
At 2 hours and 20 minutes, Divergent really pushed the limits when it came to being tolerable entertainment. In general, I thought that most of the cookie-cutter characters in the story were just a bunch of shallow, two-faced, arrogant snots and I couldn't have given a sweet-damn whether they ever triumphed in their goody-goody, little mission, or not.
All-in-all - Divergent was nothing but superficial fluff marketed exclusively for a very gullible, non-thinking audience.