Why “Hunger Games” (first one)
worked for me was because it was a new concept with so many surprises and turns
thrown in – the sequel didn’t work (for me) for the right opposite reasons
precisely as it was more action, more drama but was too predictable. Now “Divergent”
didn’t work at all as its almost similar to HGs because it has no story to tell
in the first place but a beaten to death subject – yeah – some sort of
Apocalypse yet again in America and the world (Read Chicago) is divided in five
factions, some do this some do that (Who cares) but there is this sixth faction
too that no one likes and those are called Divergents (Sounds interesting?) what
happened to the rest of the world and why they live inside the huge boundary
walls of Chicago will be explained in upcoming (2, 3 or maybe 4) sequels as
mentioned on their wiki page. Why did I see this in the first place? Tattooed
guy in poster is half of the reason and the rest of half (I mean crowd pullers)
were Kate Winslet, Maggie Q and Ashley Judd – who have nothing but thankless
roles and so damn bad that I refuse to call them even the support cast. Although
what little worked in its favor is the little unknown cast and the way they
performed their parts, was surprised to see “The Spectacular Now” guy in a
negative character but was good. It was funny to see them doing the same stuff
we saw decades back in Matrix series – the movie which started it all. Of course
it’s not easy to convert a book into a movie and you have so much of data to
process unfortunately when they do not script the book well – something like
this comes out which leaves the audience confused and asking for more. Even after
its runtime was almost 2 and a half hour, I will give it a way below average
2/5, nothing special and can be missed for sure. Hope the sequel turns out well
next year and the crowd pullers too get some meaty character.
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