“You want change without sacrifice, you want peace without struggle.
The world doesn't work that way.”
Allegiant is the third installment of
the Divergent series. Yes, I do
realize I have not yet watched and reviewed the second movie Insurgent but I just
finished reading the books I know what happens… or at least I thought I did
because the movie is so much different from the book.
Allegiant sees Tris Prior (Shailene
Woodley), Tobias Eaton (Theo James), Caleb Prior (Ansel Elgort), Christina (Zoe
Kravits), and Peter (Miles Teller) climbing the wall that separates the
factions from the rest of the world. Their factioned world has fallen apart
with Tobias’s mother, Evelyne (Naomi Watts) having seized control and showing
no mercy to those who supported Jeanine Matthews’s ruthless killing of
Abnegation and Candor memebers. They are climbing the wall after seeing a
message from an aunt of Tris’s saying there is life beyond the wall. The group
goes to see what that life could be. They come upon world that is still in the
midst of radioactive fallout and looks like the surface of Mars.
They
are found by this bureau that does genetic testing. Tris finds out that she is
not Divergent she is what is known as genetically pure which is why she was
immune to all the formulas Jeanine was trying to give her. Tobias was thought
to be Divergent as well but turns out he is not genetically pure. The bureau’s
leader David explains that Tris’s entire world was created as some genetic
experiment decades before but it backfired because the qualities they gave some
people were too much and they had other personality traits. For example,
Erudite people were smart but assholes.
Tobias teams up with this girl Nita who is from the bureau. She takes him on an outing
to watch is called the Fringe where the genetically damaged live. Turns out
David has the parents killed and the children of the murdered parents are given
a serum to forget their former lives and they are brought to the bureau for a
new life. Tobias decides to leave to head back to Chicago on his own. Tris,
Caleb, and Christina are not far behind and they are able to stop Evelyne and
Peter who is a traitor, from delivering the serum that makes people forget.
Let
me just say that the movie changed so much from the book. At first it kind of
pissed me off because there is changing a few things here and there from the
books and then there is completely changing things. And yes I do know it is
unfair to compare book and movie but I am going to do so. In the book, the
outer world is just like a neighborhood outside of a major city. There are
still houses and streets. It does not look like the surface of Mars. A lot of
characters and plot points were taken out of the movie that were in the book. Some
of the left out plotlines and characters I completely understand but there was
so much that was added that was not in the books. I am not too crazy about how
futuristic the movie world is when the book world still has a foot in the old
world. Looking back on the books compared to the movies, I do fully understand
the need to change some of the plotlines and to not add some of the characters.
In Allegiant the book the characters
are so damn whiney! And the story is so extremely slow it is almost painful. The
ending for all the main characters is actually seriously anticlimactic just
like this movie was. Although there is supposed to be a second Allegiant movie so god knows how much
more dragged out the story and how changed it will be compared to the books.
Once
again the cast was good. Miles Teller, his character of Peter is such a fucking
asshole but I love him! Teller makes the character tolerable because he is such
a smooth talker and never looks like he takes the character seriously at all
with his acting.
Allegiant
was alright. As I rambled on about I do understand some of the changes to the
movie from the book but so much of it was changed that it almost felt like a
completely different stories with the same character names and the main idea of
the books. Not sure if I would have liked Allegiant more if I had not read the
books and knew what happens because I am not super into YA stories and Allegiant is one hundred percent
marketed towards teens.
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