Good Marketing - Moderately Interesting Plot

Rating: 3/10 (1 April 2014)

The makers of Divergent looked at Twilight and Hunger Games and said "How can I make a boat load of money?" First you start with a boring, unremarkable, uninteresting teenage girl who ends up with a hunky boyfriend (Twilight) and have her Save The World (Hunger Games). This allows all of the other boring, unremarkable teenage girls to identify with the movie because they know that they too could save the world and have a hunky boyfriend if only they could stop Tweeting, watching 9 hours of MTV a day and eating fast food. Give credit where credit is due. The producers understand their market as much as the makers of John Wayne westerns and Oprah Winfrey TV shows. From a SciFi perspective, the organization of the society is a interesting plaything. You have to wonder though how the current government leaders of the society, the Abnegation faction, are so poorly connected to the mechanisms of power that their only option is to run when the Erudite faction tries to take over. The whole movie is designed to produce two more sequels so the cash cow can be milked. All in all, Divergent is a predictable, moderately interesting SciFi flick that will appeal to the main body of movie goers who are teenagers.