Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight
against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart
with the help from others on her side.Director:
Robert SchwentkeWriters:
Brian Duffield (screenplay), Akiva Goldsman (screenplay), 2 more credits »Stars:
Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Theo James | See full cast and crew »
Storyline
One choice can transform you-or it can destroy you. But every choice has
consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris
Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while
grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and
loyalty, politics and love. Tris's initiation day should have been
marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the
day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between
the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must
be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more
irrevocable--and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions
but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and
shifting relationships. Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if
she does not know what she may lose by doing so. Written by
howardjake17
User Reviews
Dull and Forgettable
The word "insurgent"
means to actively revolt, implying some distinctiveness that sets its
participants apart from the norm. Ironically, the film Insurgent, a
faded photocopy of other teen- scifi-dramas, doesn't have a single
unique bone in its body. Not that it's aggressively terrible. There are
some decent scifi elements and even a couple of mildly intriguing
moments. But like clockwork, every slight turn for the better is quickly
overwhelmed by extreme boredom. Like a forgettable SyFy channel series
masquerading as a blockbuster film, Insurgent is simply a dull and
uninteresting sequel. That word "sequel" should connote a progression of
sorts, but no. As little as I remember about the previous entry in the
Divergent Series, I can tell you this: shaky cam action scenes,
bloviating about "special ones", and constant fighting for the
McGuffin-of-the- week were the focus and are still in full form here. At
the center is Woodley, an actress with a whole heckuva lot of talent
that simply doesn't have the presence of strength to carry this sort of
role. She presents a microcosm problem for an entire film full of great
actors terribly miscast. Teller and Elgort manage some natural charisma
and charm from their otherwise absent characters, Watts and Spencer are
all but completely missing, and Winslet is just plain wasted. It's none
of their fault; they just can't make the embarrassingly constant
melodrama palatable. Even if it was laughably bad there might be
something to cling to, but it's not bold enough to even warrant that
reaction. Insurgent only serves as a lame, achingly dull placeholder
until the next Hunger Games installment.
