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The setting. Dystopian Chicago was amazing. They did such a phenomenal job with everything. I can’t even begin to imagine how they handled this. Unlike movies of its similar ilk, i.e. The Hunger Games where they have to come up with “new stuff,” The Capital, which is mostly CGI and dusty District 12 – Divergent had to represent an actual city, ravaged. The shores of Lake Michigan, obvious, but not so obvious. It was pretty cool how they did this, granted – it was a big tanker, left to rot on the shores…but it was still cool. The setting and the effects get a 5 star rating. Everything from the wind turbines on the buildings, to the rotted out ferris wheel that is a key scene in the book, everything thing was done spectacularly. I wouldn’t have imagined the interior of Dauntless headquarters, quite like they had it – but it worked.
If you aren’t familiar with the concept of the film, or the novel it is based on, you have this dystopian world, scavenging off the remnants of a war-torn Chicago. They have a big wall that goes around it and everyone in this wall is separated into factions. There are five factions, each one represent a different virtue. Tris Prior is non of these faction she is Divergent and she has to face the consequences of being born this way. It doesn’t help that at this moment in time, certain events are happening that make being a divergent very dangerous.
Yes, blah, blah – I know most of you that are reading this review, know about the story. I’m just saying it just in case.
Back to the movie. So, we have Beatrice “Tris” Prior, who is played by Shailene Woodley. She is the main character of the film. The numero uno, sole focus of the story. Shailene Woodley, in all honesty, was probably the worst casting for this role. This movie would have been so much better if they would have cast this role differently. Woodley’s acting was about as stimulating as a robot. In fact a robot playing Tris might have done a bit better. The girl had the emotional capacity of a sea apple, if you’ve ever met a sea apple – you know how little emotion that is. The scenes in which she is supposed to show emotion, it just seems, well forced, I cringed instead emoting with her. Tris is supposed to be reserved, but this was bad acting, not reserved. Jennifer Lawrence does reserved in The Hunger Games, Shailene Woodley did robotic. The only time she really captured the part was when she was having the snot beat out of her, or when she was trepidatious. She’s got trepidatious down – now on to the next gamut of emotional reactions…nope…it didn’t happen. source >.
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