Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Divergent (2014)

Another young adult dystopian film, this one with a particularly ridicules premise, a society set up in the post apocalyptic remnants of Chicago divides their residents into five competing 'Factions' based on different personality traits (Selfless, Honest, Brave, etc), but those people who have more then one trait are considered 'Divergent' and hunted down and killed. I know ridicules, beyond silly, but the movie actually works, in no small part do to star Shailene Woodley, a lot of good action scenes, and pretty tight screenwriting. I find I'm actually looking forward to seeing further installments of this series, and am curious to what this world beyond Chicago will look like. ***

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