Insurgent

A solid follow up to 2014's Divergent, which at its heart is a Hunger Games-type of premise. In the future, people are grouped by personality types, Candor, Dauntless, Erudite, Abnegation and Amity. If you don't fall into one of them, you are Divergent. And you will be culled from the herd.


 Shailene Woodley as Tris is of course Divergent. She's been separated from her brother (Ansel Elgort) and her boyfriend Four (Theo James). But when a tourture-ish, virtual reality test is developed, she volunteers to take it. The descent into the 5 separate worlds is the heart of this film. 

Not a bad popcorn film but it is typical pop action. Shot to the head? No blood. Three separate choking scenes for Tris - that's not much fun to watch. Torture? See for yourself if you dare. More violent than necessary in my opinion.

 * * * of 5

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