'Divergent' is an adventure movie with a dull and lame story based in a stupid and senseless concept of society. They fall in love with each other and soon Tris discovers that the Erudite are planning to take over the power from the Abnegation and become the ruling faction. On the next day, she chooses to join the Dauntless where she changes her name to Tris and is trained by Four (Theo James). Further, she learns that she is a Divergent that is destroyed by the government. When she is sixteen years old, she is submitted to an aptitude test to indicate in which faction she will stay for the rest of her life, but she learns that she has aptitude to be in the Abnegation, Erudite and Dauntless. The teenager Beatrice Prior (Shailene Woodley) belongs to the Abnegation that rules the society but she fells outcast and attracted by the Dauntless. In a post-apocalyptic dystopia, the world is destroyed and only Chicago has survived with a society divided into five factions: Abnegation (the selfless), Amity (the peaceful), Candor (the honest), Dauntless (the brave), and Erudite (the intelligent). Just go and watch Twilight or Hunger Games for the same movie done slightly (but not a lot) better. Not that they need to as her bad blonde hair is distracting enough. And occasionally Kate Winslet pops up, but is shot from funny angles all the time while they try to make her baby look less visible. Oh and I forgot a quick detour while we ride a pointless zip wire through some buildings for absolutely no reason than to try and spend some of the left over special effects budget.

All the while with her buff and perfectly capable new boyfriend doing as little as possible to help her.

So none of that makes sense, and much like Hunger Games, having built a nonsensical premise we now follow a teenage girl as she turns into a super-soldier capable of jumping of buildings fighting off trained armies single-handed (using a cheap looking paint-ball gun). Now they have split into 5 factions (actually 6 because they throw a lot of people out and call them 'factionless') and this somehow magically creates peace. The survivors had enough materials to build a massive wall around the city, 300ft high, but can barely feed themselves.

Having destroyed civilisation in a world war (ok) Chicago survives. Before the credits are even over the story makes less than no sense. Much like similar teen girl action movie series this one kills itself early on by introducing so many holes that the house of cards that they then try to build has no foundation.

All divergent books