Review by Matt Finley
When I saw last year’s DIVERGENT,
I enjoyed it more than I thought I would – despite a ridiculous premise and a Jansport-worth
of teen melodrama, it still managed to leverage its strong cast and cook up
some decent sci-fi action. THE DIVERGENT SERIES: INSURGENT, the second film in the trilogy, is
bigger, slower, and dumber in almost every way.
If you saw the first film, you already
know that Earth’s last inhabited city is genetically divided into five single-function social
factions – Abnegation (government), Candor (law), Dauntless (security), Amity
(food) and Erudite (science) – plus a factionless proletariat and a new,
irrationally feared amalgam of the above five, dubbed Divergent.
