Theo James and Shailene Woodley in ‘The Divergent Series: Allegiant’ (Photo: Murray Close/Lionsgate via AP)
The locations change and the characters each get a new tattoo, but there’s nothing very divergent about Allegiant, the third screen adaptation in what will be a four-part series based on Veronica Roth’s bestselling YA trilogy. With director Robert Schwentke returning to the helm, and a cast lead by Shailene Woodley suiting up for another sci-fi actioner where big ideas are often bottled down into resounding clichés, this handsomely made effects-driven vehicle offers more of the same and then some — a fact that will hardly bother fans who’ve already pledged their allegiance to the franchise, but won’t convert any nonbelievers.
Slicing Roth’s final novel into two separate movies à la The Hunger Games, and giving us a world-within-a-world conundrum à la The Maze Runner, it’s hard to see what exactly distinguishes this series from its competitors outside an initial premise which, however ridiculous, had a certain hook to it. But now that the various personality factions of Divergent and Insurgent have been dissipated, we’re left with a familiar Brave New World-type scenario where Woodley’s Tris Prior takes on an evil empire that wants to turn humans into genetically purified puppets.
The locations change and the characters each get a new tattoo, but there’s nothing very divergent about Allegiant, the third screen adaptation in what will be a four-part series based on Veronica Roth’s bestselling YA trilogy. With director Robert Schwentke returning to the helm, and a cast lead by Shailene Woodley suiting up for another sci-fi actioner where big ideas are often bottled down into resounding clichés, this handsomely made effects-driven vehicle offers more of the same and then some — a fact that will hardly bother fans who’ve already pledged their allegiance to the franchise, but won’t convert any nonbelievers.
Slicing Roth’s final novel into two separate movies à la The Hunger Games, and giving us a world-within-a-world conundrum à la The Maze Runner, it’s hard to see what exactly distinguishes this series from its competitors outside an initial premise which, however ridiculous, had a certain hook to it. But now that the various personality factions of Divergent and Insurgent have been dissipated, we’re left with a familiar Brave New World-type scenario where Woodley’s Tris Prior takes on an evil empire that wants to turn humans into genetically purified puppets.
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