Allegiant

Plot synopsis:
Picking up shortly after the previous film, 'Insurgent' left off, now that Jeanine is dead, Evelyn (Naomi Watts) has assumed control of Chicago and is placing everyone in Erudite that worked for Jeanine on trial, while also sealing off the gates to the rediscovered land outside the city.Tris (Shailene Woodley) and Four (Theo James) watch as Max (Mekhi Pfeiffer) is the first to go on trial. Most of Evelyn's followers demand that Max be executed, while those that follow Johanna (Octavia Spencer) think he ought to be spared. Kang (Daniel Dae Kim) gives Max the Candor truth serum. Max shows no remorse for killing people under Jeanine's orders, and he compares people to sheep that get slaughtered if they stray from their shepherd. Evelyn listens to the people and has Edgar (Jonny Weston) shoot Max in the head. Caleb (Ansel Elgort) is on trial next, and he fears for what they'll do to him. Johanna is booed out with her followers for disagreeing with Evelyn's verdict.Four goes against his mother, saying there was no point in going to war with Jeanine when Evelyn just became her.Tris and Four plot to break Caleb out. Four orders Evelyn's guards to release Caleb to him. Four takes him outside and throws him into a ditch before taking out his gun and pretending to shoot Caleb. The guards leave, and Caleb comes out of hiding.The three of them, along with Christina (Zoe Kravitz) and Tori (Maggie Q) plot to break out of the city. Peter (Miles Teller) comes along so that he won't rat on the group. After fooling Evelyn's guards, the group heads toward the wall, but one of the guards alerts Edgar to their plan.As the group reaches the wall, they shoot their grappling hooks and use the wires to scale the wall. However, the fence on top of the wall is electrified. Tris goes down the wall with Four following so she can destroy the electrical box. Edgar and his boys show up and start shooting at the group. Four holds them off as Tris places a bomb on the box. As they run back to the wall, she detonates it, blowing up the box and killing some of the goons. Tris and Four run back up the wall. Tori is shot and killed by Edgar, and Tris is forced to leave her behind.Once they make it further away from the city, they discover that the land has been mostly burnt out and become a toxic wasteland. The rain that falls on them is red. A van rolls in above the group... it's Edgar. They run for it and reach a point where a wall to another city appears to open up, revealing vans and aircraft. A squad of soldiers take the group in and blast Edgar's van away.The group is taken in plasma bubbles to a facility known as the Bureau of Genetic Welfare. They are decontaminated and have a bar code printed onto their skin, but all with different coding. A video shows the group an explanation of what happened to the world. Many generations ago, a hopeful miracle drug was created, but it naturally spun out of control and led to chaos around the globe, leading the survivors to form the Bureau and strive to fix things.Tris is taken to meet the Bureau's director David (Jeff Daniels). He considers Tris a miracle, as she is what the Bureau considers "pure", while the others, like Caleb and Four, are "damaged." David has also been watching everything that goes on around the city, which explains how he knows Tris and what she's been through, as well as everything that is happening in the city now. David gives Tris a device that allows her to see the memories of her late mother Natalie (Ashley Judd) from when she was a child living in The Fringe, the isolated area where the infected roam and attack survivors. Natalie was saved and later worked with David to establish the Faction system.Four is assigned to a woman named Nita (Nadia Hilker), who teaches him how to use target drones for combat. Peter and Caleb are put on surveillance duty to observe what goes on around the city.Caleb observes Evelyn and her henchmen meeting with Johanna and a few of her followers, which have called themselves the Allegiant. The two leaders are prepared for a war, which is instigated by Edgar after he shoots one of Johanna's followers.Four is on duty with the other men on his team. They go into The Fringe and accidentally kill the father of a young boy. The boy and other survivors are brought in and supposedly decontaminated with a special gas. However, Christina notes to Four that the boy has forgotten his father and his own name.David takes Tris to Providence, a clean and dystopic city structure where all the privileged folks live. Tris appears before a council to go along with David's plan to cleanse the world, but she rejects the notion that they should classify some as pure and others as damaged.Four is apparently sent to The Fringe with one Bureau worker, Matthew (Bill Skarsgard). However, Matthew tips Four off about the Bureau's true intentions. He fights the goons on board and crashes the ship. Four escapes and tells Matthew to tell Tris and David that Four left him behind, because Tris will know that's a lie. Four is eventually captured and taken back into the city.David sends Peter back into the city to deliver the gas to Evelyn, claiming that David is a personal friend. Peter suggests using it on the Allegiant so that Evelyn may retain control over everyone. She tests it out on her ex-husband Marcus (Ray Stevenson). With a heavy dose, Marcus literally watches his mind deteriorate and his memories disappear, leaving him with no idea who Evelyn is or was to him.Knowing that something bad is gonna happen, Tris steals David's hovercraft and gets Caleb and Christina to head back into the city. Nita gives them some weapons because she hates David too. The three fly away and are pursued by David's henchmen. They try to bring Tris down gently, but she attempts to manually fly the ship, nearly crashing it until they are able to go beyond the camouflage wall.Tris and Christina make it into Evelyn's facility where she plans to release the gas unto the Allegiant, unaware that it will go throughout the entire city. Tris reunites with Four while Caleb is outside on surveillance. Evelyn begins to release the gas until Four tells her that it will affect both of them, and he won't know who his mother is. She has a change of heart and tries to stop it, but Peter shoots her in the back and allows it to continue, until the gas reaches the room he's in. He frantically tries to stop it but can't.The gas starts spreading into the city, hitting some of the Allegiant. Tris runs down to the main control room, but David, who is still watching, tries to hold her off. Tris uses the drones to find the main power grid for the gas and blasts through the wall to ultimately destroy it. David yells in defeat while the gas stops spreading.Tris sends a message to everyone in the city, saying that they are neither pure nor damaged, but that they must stand united as one city against their oppressors. Tris leans against Four, thinking everything is fine... not knowing David is still watching and planning something sinister.

Tags: suspenseful, murder, violence, good versus evil, psychedelic, romantic, brainwashing, revenge, sci-fi

Review:
The set of David's office is so over-designed and green-screened to the point that it just became a distraction.There are large swathes of the film's running time where nothing seems to happen, no surprise considering this is the first of two parts of what is one book.
If you've watched the movies but started liking them less and less, read the books instead!
I went because I am Sheilene Woodley's number one fan and supporter (check my reviews of her films for proof on that), so anything she does I will see, included this franchise which for me, in the first two entries, proved to be a mix of some few good elements, Woodley's performance being center on that, with some bad filmaking overall and a story that was always so bad it made me laugh.That element is partially back, once again through the entirety of the duration of the film almost nothing makes sense.
Even the cinematography, for the most part, is as dull as it can be: basic coverage of dialogue scenes and where it tries to do something new like some good tracking shots it fails miserably because they look terrible.What remains good is the imagery that the series has offered throughout, don't misunderstand me: for the major part the CGI is mediocre and touches bad in many points, but the art concepts and the visual ideas still work very well and provide that minimum flare that mixed to some laughing at the story and Miles Teller not giving a sh*t for the third time, which I must admit is the best part of the film, manages to get you through the film indifferently.I wouldn't recommend this to anyone unless you are a true fan of the series, the film in itself is boring and uninspired with yet another laughable ending..
Divergent followers or not, this movie fails for the length of time and plot it delivers to be enjoyable.As stated before, I don't believe in rating movies terribly low, so I give this movie series a generous 6 without going into more details.Thanks.
When I saw the first divergent movie, I really liked it and I became really excited to see the adaptions of the next two books (insurgent and allegiant).But after I saw the 2nd movie, it was a lot different from the book and I started to get confused on why it wasn't going to be like how the first movie was.
There's just so much stuff wrong with this movie, the most annoying of course are the small but plentiful errors, like never seeing Tori's brother on the other side of the wall, that happens in the book.....
As a fan of the books it can be nerve wrecking to have a good book turned into an awful movie, but I like to think about how much time was put into making a film.
I praise this cast for not giving up on this project and continue to do their best to pull off a movie adaptation of a best- selling series.All in all, I enjoyed this movie and recommend it to people who love stories and fans who can still appreciate a movie despite its obvious changes..
As a fan of the first book, I thought the first movie was pretty decent and had potential, but after Insurgent being a very big disappointment, I didn't really expect to like this much.
The Divergent Series: Allegiant is the latest Divergent movies that comes out at March 10 in England and March 18 in USA starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Jeff Daniels, Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort, Maggie Q, With Octavia Spencer, and Naomi Watts.
Let see if the new one do a better work.The only one who was according to the movie was Theo James, the another ones were like stupid person doing nothing in their lives.Miles Teller (Was Stupid), Naomi Watts(Be In Love With A Monkey), Shailene Woodly (Be Pregnant Again), Theo James (You're OK), Zoë Kravitz (Be in The Dessert With Max)...
They then decide to break through the wall, locking them in the city, and see what's beyond it.I was a big fan of the first 'DIVERGENT' movie, and really enjoyed the second film as well (although not quite as much).
Woodley is decent, but she, like many actors from the previous movies, looks tired of this franchise.
i was looking at the reviews of this movie and most of them are pretty brutal wayyyyyy too brudal if u ask me i rather enjoyed it myself full of action to the core high flying fun it was great to see old faces agen and a few new ones too good for almost anyone its a blast cant wait to see what they do with the next movie tris is as hot as always gotta love that if u are not into these kind of movies or didn't like the 3rd book Don't SEE THE MOVIE AND THEN WRITE SHITTY REVIEWS JUST BECAUSE U Didn't HAVE FUN its a good excape from the world and i say ignore everyone and go see it for yourself u will for sure have an awesome time just keep the brain outside here 'its no good to u here 'but definitely see the movie.
Still Like It. Heard so many reviews agree to disagree that allegiant not better than divergent I think the story evolve and so are the character.
I totally enjoyed 1,5 hour movies which bring us moving forward while at the same time standstill to save what is left behind.One thing to improve is the plot and story line.
And now Allegiant is also a great addition to the previous movies it has the same rhythm as insurgent:the story's buildup takes the first 30 to 40 minutes of the movie and then you can sit tight and enjoy a good show!!
Lastly Allegiant did a really good job making the movie fit the age group of people who loved the book, when you make a movie like this it is really hard to keep it "kid friendly" when even the book is a little questionable, and I think they did a really good job making the film fit the PG13 criteria..
Many secrets are revealed but not in the way in which the reading audience and film wanted.Tris (Shailene Woodley), Four (Theo James) and his friends (Miles Teller, Zoe Kravitz, etc) decide to discover that there are outside and after some shooting, a stupid death and nothing more, they succeed, It's...
It is harassing and annoying the harmless and silly conflict internal in Chicago, after the departure of Tris and Four, sorry but I hear laughs as the film progressed.Analogically, "Allegiant" is like a famous reality American show which airs weekly, but this reality show already this very exhausted and burned so they decide to get to the end, all the chips are already in place, so spectators until next week to learn the fate of the dystopian world.
It could maybe happen as "Mockingjay Part One and Two" where the first disappointed and worried fans but the second recovered what was lost and closed the franchise in the best way, we dream, is the only thing we can do.This doesn't feel like Tris, this doesn't feel like "Divergent", I think that it's necessary completion of the saga (Ascendant), more pain there can be no.
(Which I mostly did because I kept skipping parts of the movie that is good and they still kept talking in a room with CGI like "Star Wars Episode 1" but at least in Star Wars you can just forgive that because the writing is a bit better than in this film.) If you want to watch this movie, just don't...It is a waste of time and money to contribute to this film and will make it more money and more wasteful book adaptation to movies are going to be worst than this pile of garbage..
This reality is not bad, I just don't care about this world in the same way I did about Hogwarts.This movie wouldn't have sucked if you enjoy listening to painfully obvious messages like, "is it better to kill a healthy child or a sick old man?" Or, "people are sheep.
Not even The appearance of Jeff Daniels in the series could save it.The little action that it did have was good, and all done by the character Tobias Eaton which kind of sucks.Because of how connected all three movies are I have to grade it as a Sequel and not a sand alone, and as a sequel it's a weak leak because it changes everything that made we want to see the movie in the first place.
It's a massive experiment, and its success is dependent on keeping people in the dark.But divergent insurgent Tris (Shailene Woodley) and her boyfriend Four (Theo James) don't intend to sit around as usurper Evelyn (Naomi Watts) and rival Johanna (Octavia Spencer) scrap over the spoils of a divided society.
As a kid the best stories started "once upon a time" and ended "they lived happily ever after" + I think series like this bridge the gap between kids fairy tales + "down to earth with a bump" adult viewing, + appeal to the kid in all of us-no matter what age we are.
Okay, it's not complex and possibly predictable for people who have read the book, but as a newbie I have enjoyed watching the growth of the characters and progression of the story.
The film stars Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Jeff Daniels, Octavia Spencer, Ray Stevenson, Zoë Kravitz, Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort, Maggie Q, Bill Skarsgård and Naomi Watts.-It is the sequel to The Divergent Series: Insurgent and will be followed by the concluding entry, The Divergent Series: Ascendant.--Critical response: -The Divergent Series: Allegiant has been panned by critics.
In "Allegiant," he gets an even lesser script to work with and can't do much of anything to counter how far-flung the story has gotten at this point — both Roth's actual story and the film's reworked version of it.With the goal of turning around these films annually, the studio turned to new writers and asked them to not only adapt the series finale, but split it up into two parts, and only write part one (as far as we know).
During their field trip beyond the fence, however, war looms back in the city where Evelyn's (Naomi Watts) Factionless are at odds with those clinging to the old way of life.Despite a couple different story lines and a large portion of the story that splits up Tris and Four (which no Hollywood studio would allow to happen for a significant length of screen time), there really aren't two good movies worth of material without expounding significantly.
Actually, almost the entire plot of the book gets used except the ending, which is lopped off to make room for a rousing fourth movie that has no precedent in the novel.So not only is it a forced script (Jeff Daniels is awesome when he gets the dialogue, but watching him in this versus an Aaron Sorkin project is like night and day), but it deviates enough from the book to confound the only people still watching the series — the book's fans.
The story and backdrop can change if the characters' journeys stay intact, but that was already falling apart before cameras rolled on "Allegiant."You'll be ready to be done with the "Divergent" series come the end of this one, and seeing as it's the third film in a book trilogy, you kind of expect to be relieved of that burden, but alas.
Review: After enjoying the first movie in the Divergent franchise but not being that impressed with second film, Insurgent, I really thought that this franchise would go out with a bang, with Allegiant but it seemed exactly the same as the other movies.
I decided to watch all of the movies together, and it did just seem like another Hunger Games but without the clever CGI and impressive action scenes.
As I haven't read the books, I don't know how close the movies are to the writers characters and storyline but as she was on set while they were making the films, I'm sure she wouldn't have allowed them to make a mock out of her vision.
Anyway, it was a sad ending to Tris & Four but I wouldn't be surprised if they brought back the characters in the near future.Budget: $110million Worldwide Gross: $180millionI recommend this movie to people who are into their action/adventure/mysteries, starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Jeff Daniels, Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Zoe Kravitz, Ansel Elgort, Miles Teller, Ray Stevenson and Mekhi Phifer.
However, Allegiant, the third instalment, takes the series to a whole new low, by presenting a tedious and non-sensical story filled with poor performances, ugly visuals and disappointing directing.There was pretty much nothing I liked about Allegiant, and I want to talk about what I really couldn't bear most of all: the plot.
There are a couple of action scenes, but they're too far near the end, and pretty underwhelming anyway.Instead, it's basically two hours of trying to advance the series into something more meaningful than a simple young adult sci-fi, like The Hunger Games did very successfully, but it simply comes off as a drab, poorly-written mess.
Even Shailene Woodley, whose Hollywood career was really kicked into action by this series, looks fed up, rarely cracking a smile and mumbling her gibberish dialogue throughout.Just like Divergent and Insurgent, there are a lot of A-list actors in here, including Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Jeff Daniels and Miles Teller, but none of them give a performance that looks like they care about what's going on.
If you go watch this movie expecting to see the book's story adapted to a film (or as close as Insurgent was), you'll be disappointed.The movie is a good (not exceptional) re-imagining of the story in the book, and it succeeds to keep it interesting and dynamic.The CGI looks so bad at times.
If you liked the previous movie, you should watch it to get the story complete.
The directors always change things and drop characters or snippets of the book that I love and wish had appeared, however in general you get over it and enjoy the films.However - Allegiant part 1 - may as well be called an entirely different name.
The whole thing just feels under-developed.If you are a die hard book fan - definitely give the film a miss you will just be insulted and annoyed.However if you are easy going and don't mind it being an entirely different story to what you expected - go ahead and try and enjoy it..
I'm 46.My first experience with Divergent but not my first experience paying for a movie ticket to be wowed with a story, some action, a plot ...entertainment.Allegiant - BORING is being polite.
So, if you like the films where the idea and feelings are important, come and watch Allegiant!.
Which makes me think that Ascendant will likely be an original story and might diverge from that ending, but we shall see.
Take a popular YA book series and make the books into movies, but spread the final book's story over two films.
In the case of those final two YA book to movie series, "The Hunger Games" and the "Divergent Series", you could say "four is the new three".
This movie doesn't have as much fresh action as the other films in the series (similar to "The Hunger Games: Girl on Fire"), but the script's big problems lie in its plot points and dialog.
For those following along at home, Allegiant is the third film based on the third book in the Divergent series.
"Allegiant" is the third movie of The Divergent Series in which we watch Tris trying to escape with Four from Chicago.
Even if you are a true fan of this movie series or even of the books I think that you won't enjoy it..
You're left with an average movie which could have been a lot better from many points of view, especially the plot, as the series deserved..
ALLEGIANT is the third film in the DIVERGENT series, following on from the rubbish INSURGENT.
I really don't like this franchise at all, finding it a mere rip-off of THE HUNGER GAMES which was itself a teen-friendly rip-off of BATTLE ROYALE, but the good news is that ALLEGIANT is much better than the last film in the series, although that doesn't make it good.INSURGENT was all about predictability and mindless action whereas ALLEGIANT at least has a plot of sorts, even if it isn't a very good one.
Everyone else who I did not mention except for Tris, their performance throughout the film was lovely and astonishing.The Divergent Series: Allegiant.
Allegiant is the third movie in The Divergent Series franchise.The film continues exactly from the end of Insurgent to a journey that Tris and Four take to discover what is beyond the wall that surrounds Chicago,an experiment city.To be honest,this film is not great or clever,but if you don't come with maximum expectations you get an enjoyable film with a lot of action and satisfying scenes.
Yes, this isn't a great movie, its not bad it's a solid film.Now I did enjoy the movie non the less, I really liked the new sci- fi elements with the whole world outside of Chicago idea.
So Allegiant is the third film of the Divergent series, an adaptation from one of the many teen post-apocalyptic novels.
I really enjoyed the first movie, it was very entertaining and it had a good story and characters and the second one I thought was very weak and it didn't really seem to know where it was going until the last act.Allegiant picks up not long after it's predecessor and follows Tris, Four and a few others venture out beyond the wall.