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User Reviews for: Allegiant

zacg
2/10  8 years ago
Maybe I just haven't been perceptive enough or maybe they did a terrible job of marketing but I was under the impression that this was the final movie in the series. I based this idea off the fact that the final book is called "Allegiant" and they didn't put "part 1" or anything in the movie's name. I walked out of this movie feeling completely underwhelmed. The movie ended with zero closure and it answered no questions the viewer may have. The entire movie seemed like an awful setup movie for a movie that I didn't know existed. It took several google searches for me to even find that there is a movie following this one. Overall I thought it was a pretty weak attempt at the book series. Even when I try to keep this review based on the movie as it's own separate entity I can't say it was a very enjoyable. There were a couple neat little things like the small drones but other than that the special effects sucked and the movie was boring. I hope the next film can recover for me a bit of the (granted, little) respect I had for this series. I don't usually walk into these movies expecting much, I just go to be entertained and try not to over analyze but I really didn't enjoy this movie.
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Reply by aag
8 years ago
They are turning the sequel into a TV movie with another cast to probably extend it towards a TV show... They just don't give up this series.
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SerenadB
6/10  8 years ago
Tris and her friends are still trying to find out everything that is happening to them and their existence. They finally cross the border and find out things are way worse then they first expected. Once they thought they found their allegiance behind the wall, they soon get disappointed again and now they are the only ones able to seal their faiths.

I am very confused right now. I read the books before this movie series started and I was pretty happy with the first one, but now the second and third are both pretty disappointing. I really enjoyed reading the books and I was so excited for the movies, but this is just not it. Literally. I thought I was pretty sure about everything that was going to happen, but after this one, I’m not anymore.

1/4th into the movie I decided it wasn’t a good idea to expect the book story, so I sort of changed the way I was watching the movie (sound pretty weird, I know, but it worked) and I decided that it actually was an okay movie. The storyline is still enjoyable and although there were few gaps and things that didn’t really made a lot of sense it was a fun watch.

Tris is still not one of my favorite characters, but I really (and I mean really) love Four. And Theo James. But especially Four. I felt like there weren’t a lot of characters who had a big part in this movie. They all had a kind of equal camera time. Of course Tris and Four were in the picture a lot but next to them only David (Jeff Daniels) had a lot of camera time. I liked the comeback Caleb (Ansel Elgort) made and I’m very proud of him for it. I really liked the way Matthew (Bill Skarsgard) and Nita (Nadia Hilker) turned out. The visuals of the worlds the created were very pretty, they did a great job. I also really enjoyed the technology they introduced behind the wall and how everything worked there. It was very interesting to actually see the difference between inside, and behind the wall.

For the ones who read the books, this movie will probably be a disappointment. But if you haven’t read them or if you can accept the story change this is an okay movie.
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dahj
CONTAINS SPOILERS8/10  3 years ago
8.5/10 - This is my favorite one of the three movies. Usually I like the first movie / origin story the most but this movie brings a big change to the story/world. Story-weise I still like the first movie the most but this one shifts the setting to post-cyberpunk and introduces a lot of interesting concepts to think about and also shows lots of cool Sci-Fi technology.

The post-atomic-war setting with the few human oases is nice to begin with. Then there's cool technology like the plasma globes, personal recon/guardian drones, transport drones/ships, cloaking technology, etc. Then there's the surveillance technology which brings up interesting ethical questions (as does the whole human experiment of course). Genetic modification is also an interesting Cyberpunk topic that I like and that raises a lot of important ethical questions. It's also something that's quite relevant as I believe that we're pretty close to making this a reality (maybe 25-100 years? AFAIK we're already quite far with cloning and IIRC there was already a human experiment in China to genetically modify the eye color of a baby).

Also: Unsurprisingly Peter turned again and unfortunately he still doesn't quite get what he deserves (but that'll likely change). I'd really like to see how this story ends. It sucks that the forth movie was cancelled...
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Andre Gonzales
/10  9 months ago
Probably my favorite out series. They finally make it past the wall and find a whole new world with advance technicallogy. Just like there world the other civilization has there own evil agendas.
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Frank Ochieng
/10  6 years ago
The first compulsion is to reach for an unflattering label when dubbing the third installment of the **Divergent** series as "the poor man's **Hunger Games**". Sure, the comparison was inevitable but all the Divergent editions had to do was prove that the unfair comparing and contrasting were wrong. Well, the knockoff status was indeed warranted and unfortunately this copycat YA Sci-Fi serving of a harried heroine and her excitable dystopian dealings never mustered up the kind of distinctive expectations that failed to fuel this flaccid futuristic fable. Hence, **The Divergent Series: Allegiant** is an over-stuffed mechanical continuation of a familiar film franchise trying desperately to fulfill its colorful action-packed whimsy left over by its pumped-up predecessors.

As mentioned, **Allegiant** is the third episode of the **Divergent** movie series. Of course Veronica Roth is the literary voice responsible for the books on which these films are based. Jokingly, one would probably imagine that both Roth and **Hunger Games** author Suzanne Collins are twin sisters seeing as though their imaginative wells of creativity are similar in style and content. The only difference is that Collins's notable blueprint registered with forceful reception while Roth's wannabe material was like an identical shadow trying to break out in its own shade.

Basically, **Allegiant** (much like the rest of the YA genre) is a glorified teen soap opera bombarded with awesome ray guns and youthful cynicism aimed at the controlling over-30 Establishment. Distrust and disillusionment is the recurring theme and the penalty for being young, attractive, repressed and rebellious is a cautionary tale for those that want to challenge the sinister Authority. As with **The Hunger Games'** Katniss Everdeen (played by Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence) we are subjected to Divergent diva Tris Pryor (Shailine Woodley) as the feminine firecracker ready to spring into action defeating the aging forces threatening their post- apocalyptic presence. Unfortunately for Woodley's Tris she does not possess the explosive brooding or riveting material and eye-opening challenges that Lawrence's Katniss was blessed with from the get-go. At least one common denominator is clear: both bad-ass babes have totally catchy, cool-sounding names, right?

The sluggish plotting in **Allegiant** revisits the enclosed post-apocalyptic Chicago where various "factions" of young folks are furiously fighting with one another. The tension is percolating big time as the trapped youthful residents are growing increasingly restless. The disenchanted Tris, along with her studly boyfriend Four (Theo James) and group of rebels, decide to break out of their Chicago-bound doldrums and climb the wall to escape their entrapment. Of course this means crossing over some treacherous terrain to reach a more, idyllic surrounding. The destination, as it turns out, is the comfortable haven for the monitoring overlords spying their every step.

Thankfully, Tris and her bunch stumble upon a picturesque civilization headed by leader David (Emmy-winner Jeff Daniels). The surroundings look idyllic but David is very shady because his agenda is to recruit the pure and precious Tris for his genetic experimentation. With Tris as his main guinea pig the devious David can plan on using his experimental agenda on the underprivileged pretty kids back in the walled-off Chicago. The educated guess is that David most likely would extend the same kind of testing treatment for "the Fringes" as well (they are the masses that exist outside the wall of Chicago in less flattering pockets of the region). In any event, Tris represents the ideal vision for his replication of purity and perfection to be transferred to the "damaged" souls out there. While Tris is intrigued by the CEO's intention for bettering the impoverished population Four is skeptical about David's focus on his gun-toting honey bunny.

To say that **The Divergent Series--Allegiant** is clunky and convoluted even for a showy older kiddie caper is an understatement to say the least. Director Robert Schwentke is basically on auto pilot here as the cameras roll while capturing the drawn out degrees of splashy stunts, showdowns and bombastic special effects flourishes. The silly-minded plot and utter familiarity of the "Big Brother watching over the young perished pretty people" feels empty and repetitive at its compelling core. One cannot perceive the transparent concept of **Allegiant** going through the motions without looking at this anemic actioner as a convenient means to bridge the upcoming remaining installments to protect its promising box office clout. So for those looking forward to **Ascendant** please hold your horses because this is what **Allegiant** strives for...to make one salivate over the next due edition to this tiring movie series.

Sure, **The Divergent Series--Allegiant** and perhaps **Ascendant** will offer more of the same and if this is something that its avid fans do not mind then fine...knock yourselves out to your heart's redundant content.

**The Divergent Series--Allegiant** (2016)

Lionsgate

2 hrs. 1 min.

Starring: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Ray Stevenson, Jeff Daniels, Zoe Kravitz and Miles Teller

Directed by: Robert Schwentke

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Genre: Sci-Fi/Action & Adventure/Fantasy/Romance

Critic's Rating: ** stars (out of 4 stars)

(c) Frank Ochieng 2016
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