Divergent 2/5

Divergent is a a film about somewhat distopian future where everyone will be divide into group base on their personality at sixteen. There are: Abnegation(selfless), whose work as chicken soup volunteer; Amity(unity), whose work as a farmer; Erudite(intelligent), which consist of scientist and suit guy from politic school;  Candor(unity), which consist of guy from Howard.

And the last one is Dauntless(brave), which suppose to be some sort of soldier but act like roid rage jock running around the street.

The future of law enforcement, marathon jogger.

Those who do not pass the initiation test of their chosen faction will be put into 'Factionless' which is equivalent to homeless.

The story followed Tris, a valley girl born in Abnegation faction. On the day of her aptitude test(which consist of weird dream sequence like Ender's Games ), she was found to be 'Divergent', a person who's not really into all five stereotype. The tester warns Tris not to tell anyone of the test and just choose one for herself.

So Tris choose to be in Dauntless, the path of surrounding with hot guy in tight black leather. After that, the story followed another training from hell, meet some hot guy who will help her through her quest, and uncover conspiracy that will shock the stability of five faction.

As you might notice, the film clearly have some element from Harry Potter(a young boy/girl choose to be in faction),Ender's Game(training from hell and nightmare session), and Hunger Game(Distopian lead lady surround by hot guys). But due to several design element that seriously cater to teenage girl, I found it rather hard to take the film seriously. I guess it's suppose to be social commentary, but for me it sound more like an American college stereotype drama in bigger scale.

See. They want to be serious.

The acting is nothing to be mention about. Shailene Woodley (Tris) was pretty stone for the early film but she did a bit better on emotional scene. Theo James(Four - Tris' mentor/boyfriend) is also stoneface for the whole movie but it works good enough for a stone cold mentor role. But it was Kate Winslet who save the day with role of Jeanine Matthews, Erudite leader and big bad of the role.

Also, I would like to mention one more thing about the film. The fight choreography in this film is better than other recent young adult novel film(The Hunger game, Ender's game, Twilight). Still it have pretty weird stance which I pretty doubt for it effectiveness in real life.

Please consult your boxing class before try this in a bar.
Safety not guarantee.

Not entirely horrible film, but passable.