We use cookies as set out in our cookie policy. By using this website, you agree we may place these cookies on your device. Close UK Site Seek-A-Geek Dating Follow us on Facebook Twitter Home Movies TV Games DVD/Blu-ray Comics/Books Other Buy our tat SEARCH THE SITE Search Home Movies Review The Divergent Series: Allegiant review The Divergent Series: Allegiant review Review Mark Harrison 10 Mar 2016 - 16:45 FACEBOOK TWITTER GOOGLE+ FROM AROUND THE WEB 37 Vintage People 37 Rare Photos Seen Covers That Are For The First Time The third Divergent film, Allegiant, may be the best of the lot but sadly, Hilariously Crazy In Show A Different Side that's not saying much... HToipnixd sStiagrhst ODafil yH Bisantoanrays This is a spoiler-free review of Allegiant, but it does contain plot details from the previous two Divergent films, so if you're not up to date, proceed with caution. It's that time of year again. It may still be stomping around in the too-big shoes of the Hunger Games movies, but The Divergent Series: Allegiant marks the third of four instalments in the series of movies based on Veronica Roth's trilogy of novels. You'd never know it from the way it's been presented, but like Katniss and Harry Potter before, we're in Part One and Part Two territory for Swelling in pregnancy: Famous Parents. You the first half of Roth's climactic story. what’s normal and Won't Believe Who If you haven't been back since 2014's Divergent, you needn't be too concerned with jogging your what’s not Her Mother Is memory about the series' convoluted caste system, in which a walled-off Chicago is divided into Bundoo AccessTheStars factions based on their predominant personal characteristics - bravery, intelligence, selflessness, Sponsored Links by Taboola honesty and, er... happiness - in the aftermath of an apocalyptic event. In essence, it's what might happen if a Zimbio personality quiz took over the world. J E F ) ( B ?I J I J > ; E : : B ?I J I Videos from around the web THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT - OFFICIAL "FACTION" CLIP Latest in Movies Dead Poets Society: why it works and how it happened Perhaps the most beloved of Robin Williams' films. we look back at Dead Poets Society, and how it nearly fell apart. Movie merchandise, and how it's giving converted by Web2PDFConvert.com away big spoilers Action figures and LEGO sets are giving clues to big movie spoilers - even before the films concerned are released. But why? Batman: Ben Affleck on However, the films are moving on. Having discovered at the end of the previous film that the city is directing a standalone movie the subject of an elaborate social experiment, the divergent Tris (Shailene Woodley) and her beau Ben Affleck admits that a standalone Four (Theo James) are eager to go out and rejoin humanity. However, the despotic Jeanine (Kate Batman movie is in the works at Winslet in the previous two films) has been replaced by Four's mother, Evelyn, who is enjoying Warner Bros - and leaves the door open to directing it... popular support in the honeymoon of her own fascist dictatorship and forbids anyone going beyond the wall. Netflix to stump up $100m for Will Smith’s next movie Along with a motley crew of allies, (series regulars Ansel Elgort, Miles Teller, Maggie Q and Zoe Will Smith and his Suicide Squad Kravitz) Tris and Four bust out and discover an advanced city in the midst of the radioactive director, David Ayer, are to make wasteland, which is headquarters to a Bureau of Genetic Welfare. The administrator of the city, Bright. And Netflix is set to foot the $100m bill... David, (Jeff Daniels) is thrilled to meet Tris, the product of his experiment, but as tensions between Miss Peregrine's Home For Evelyn and the burgeoning Allegiant faction simmer in Chicago, she discovers she's not out of the Peculiar Children: new woods yet. pictures Lots of pictures from Tim Burton's If you're completely lost by this point, it's either because you've never seen any of the films or you adaptation of Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar don't remember much of this from last year. Director Robert Schwentke returns for this one and Children... continues what has been a gruelling and very gradual incline in quality over the course of the series so far. Over two films, the far-fetched futuristic trials have gone from looking like ITV's The Cube to looking a bit more like The Matrix, thanks to the success of the first film and an up-tick in the sequel's budget. The visual and thematic influences here are more diverse - it goes from Logan's Run to The Truman Show inside half an hour. Some of the most impressively realised sequences in the film take place in the space between the two sites where the story is really taking place, in the burnt orange wasteland where the mix of arid devastation and futuristic aircraft looks like nothing so much as Mad Max on Gallifrey. Although there's still some dodgy CGI and it's never in danger of doing anything original, it's still more exhilarating and better told than the previous exposition-heavy instalments. While the dramatic shifts in tone between films have made the series a more interesting proposition than it ought to be, we haven't really followed the characters through in a way where we care for them. The series' biggest recurring problem is that it always feels like they're underusing Shailene Woodley, even though she's the protagonist. Like Kristen Stewart in Twilight, she feels miscast, but she's already doing other better projects while coming back to spin her Hot Topics wheels as Tris once a year. Even with nothing to work with, she's by far the most watchable part of I J 7 H M 7 H I the film. : ; D E < = ; ; A Three films in, the rest of the characters have left naught but footprints in the snow. Teller's 8 E E A 9 B K 8 deadpan snarker Peter sneaks into the centre of the action once again to deliver withering asides : E 9 J E H M > E and at least makes something of an impression, but characters like James' Four has all of the dynamism of a baked potato. An arbitrary stakes-raising death lands in the first half hour and even @K I J ?9 ; B ; 7 = K ; though it's a character who has been in all three films, you find yourself going “Wait, who was : 9 C E L ?; that?” K D ?L ; H I ; It makes complete sense when we find out that the unlikely faction system was no more than a = ; ; A I L I massive social experiment, but the film's main problem is that it doesn't go back to its roots in The B E D ; B ?D ; I I Cube and take the opportunity to yell “Simplify” as it changes horses mid-franchise. Just as = 7 C ; E < Jeanine's corrupt and confusing government is replaced by Evelyn's equally violent regime, so the conspiracy going on in the outer world often proves to be just as nebulous and illogical. J > H E D ; I I ; 7 I E D . To their credit, screenwriters Noah Oppenheim, Adam Cooper and Bill Collage have made this the I J 7 H J H ; A first instalment to leave us with a good understanding of what's what in the run-up to Ascendant, but after more than six hours of screen time, that's much too little, too late for a major movie 8 7 J C 7 D L franchise like this one. Schwentke has performed a Herculean feat to bring up the series average I K F ; H C 7 D 2 in these two films, but he's already departed the final instalment, citing exhaustion - we'd say he's : 7 M D E < @K I J ?9 ; earned the rest, because we kind of know how he feels. : ; 7 : F E E B It may be the best of the three films, but in the main, Allegiant is overly solemn and only mildly diverting. We'd say they're getting better, but the latest instalment feels like a lateral move from dystopian action to conspiracy thriller. Woodley continues to bring bucket-loads more conviction than the material deserves, but the biggest strength of this third movie switching things up visually is the biggest weakness of the series overall - it's too changeable to leave any lasting impression. 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