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Insurgent

Insurgent

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Second instalment in the dystopian young adult saga, where society has defined its citizens by their affiliation with a series of five...

Certificate12

Duration114 mins

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  • Becky, 13
  • 24 reviews

Triiiiiiiiiiiiisssss... Where were you in the direction of this film?

3 stars

26 Mar 2019

Now let me calm the ocean two ways by saying, I am utterly in love with Tris as a person SHE IS AWESOME, But I will be fair to people and say that this film still had some wavy problems that did follow in events and lead to other issues, not to say this was bad! Had some rather nice points.. Had some points that came a little out of the blue but it balanced it out in some ways so it's all good and yes I still will always love the divergent series To start off with, I’m already hearing the cannonballs being loaded as I say this but, the writing is ok!! Because let’s be real here. They had to make a close to the book adaptation and not a film made off the film writers head. They must try and re-create that atmosphere the book created while not making it too boring, so to be honest the film production company are under quite a few restraints to make the film but to be judgemental. FILM storyline is as I said before, good it’s not weak and tries to say many things through dialogue and actions but it’s too much; unfortunately as it stands, books are better suited to having symbolism than films and if focus scripting into that then the story and scripting can clash and it becomes too much so it’s best to make the story the focus or the characters- hencing my next point Oh, the characters! Probably the reason the story was kinda predictable and how they conveyed more emotion weights than the story (Which is a real thing- to me at least.) I don’t have many issues with them, our characters are at least very rangeful in emotion In their own special ways, and hey! Doesn't make them that 2-dimensional right?? To be honest though, once I was writing this, I started to think back to how reviewers say about characters being 3 dimensional and perhaps too caught up emotions and can express thoughts and emotions without it truly being in the script and then it also dawned to me- This is a sequel, everyone knows what that means... So, I somehow realised that in the original divergent film, compared to the Insurgent (The current film). That these characters are not so 3D as we maybe hoped for. Tris is more or less the same without her drive being so connected to the story. Four is now slowly becoming flatter and flatter and Cristina being well- Flatter than flat Stanley... At this point, I really have nothing more to say. I guess it’s ok, nothing much really did catch my eye except for how much emotion and suspense they put in, Which I’m proud of! I never thought death could be so shuddering and questioning (Winking to people who have seen the film ;-o). But I really do nothing but nothing more to say. In other words. Flat Stanley was secretly hired as Director! P.S: TRIS X 4!!!!!!! TRID AND FOUR TRIS AND FOUR TRIS AND FOUR TRIS AND FOUR TRIS AND FOUR!!!!!

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