Film: Allegiant

GENRE: Action

RATING: PG-13 for violence and partial nudity
RUNTIME: 2 hours

STARRING: Shailene Woodley (Divergent, Fault in Our Stars)

Theo James (Insurgent); Jeff Daniels (Newsroom, Steve Jobs)

DIRECTOR: Robert Schwentke (Flightplan, RED, Insurgent)

WRITERS: Adam Cooper & Bill Collage (Accepted, Tower Heist)

Noah Oppenheim (Maze Runner)

PLOT: Tris and her friends find out what is beyond the wall and things are not what they seem.

FULL DISCLOSURE: I didn’t read the final book, heard it wasn’t that good.

STORY STUFF: Be aware that like all young adult books turned into movies, they have divided the final book into two parts. It was pretty obvious that they were taking their time to justify another film, some looks linger a bit too long. If you break down what really happens plotwise, not much goes on. This story would be my least favourite of the three so far but it wasn’t terrible or anything, just not as gripping.

ACTING STUFF: Everyone does a good job on screen. These actors know these characters and give it all they can. I did like seeing Jeff Daniels in his role as David (boring character names btw). It’s hard to believe that Daniels was in Dumb and Dumber.  

ARTISTIC STUFF: You can tell there was a lot of CG going on this movie. Being the future, some of that is understandable, but at other points, some realism would be nice. I found the over abundance of red, white and black kind of dull. I also wasn’t really impressed with the futuristic building designs. You could also tell that Four does not like white, he changed into his black outfit as quick as humanly possible.  

VERDICT: Two and half stars out of five

SEE IT IF: You’ve already seen the other two films.

UPCOMING REVIEWS: Captain America: Civil War