The latter character’s Machiavellian maneuvers enliven the story with something close to intrigue playing him with a wiseass swagger, Teller injects the glum doings with jolts of sarcastic energy.ĭuring a brief sanctuary at the Amity compound, a sylvan commune of feel-gooders headed by the Earth-motherly Johanna ( Octavia Spencer), Tris has time to take scissors to her hair for a symbolic - and expertly stylish - makeover before she and Four are on the lam again. Targeted for her gifts as a category-defying Divergent by villainous Erudite leader Jeanine ( Kate Winslet), Tris is a fugitive on the run with her boyfriend, Four ( Theo James), a fellow Divergent her seemingly timid brother, Caleb ( Ansel Elgort) and frenemy Peter. (Following YA franchise convention, Summit plans a two-film adaptation of the final book, Allegiant.)īeginning with a bracing race through woods, the movie picks up where Divergent left off, in the aftermath of a war against Abnegation, the selfless faction in which Tris grew up. The MacGuffin that spurs the action, a mystery box that only Tris can unlock containing a message about said system, is a handsome objet d’art with blinking blue lights, its big reveal dutifully setting up the next sequel while casting the story’s defining metaphor in doubt.

Read more Lionsgate, Samsung turn ‘Divergent’ Sequel ‘Insurgent’ into Virtual RealityĮven with breathless chases, strong design components and dazzling effects, the story’s organizing principle - the faction system that divides society into five groups based on personality - grows less compelling as Insurgent proceeds. Whatever its narrative deficiencies, the movie, opening in a variety of 2D and 3D formats precisely a year after Divergent, is sure to repeat the box-office triumph of the first chapter as eager fans dig in.

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