Director: Neil Burger
Writer: Evan Daugherty
Screen play: Vanessa Taylor
Starring: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Ashley Judd, Jai Courtney, Ray Stevenson, Kate Winslet, Maggie Q, Mekhi Phifer.
Cert: 12A
Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
Sex & Nudity: A female is seen undressing. We see her bra but no nudity is seen. This is very non-sexual.
A man shows his bear back to a woman to reveal his tattoo to her.
A man and woman kiss passionately.
A man aggressively tries to have sex with a woman but she resists and kicks him in the groin.
Violence & Gore: Fair amount of violence. Some flesh wounds and stab scenes. Nothing too major.
Lots of shooting violence. The aftermath ends with bruises and scars. Blood is sometimes shown but it is not as gory and bloody. People do get shot and have wounds with blood but it is not disturbing or too gory.
Lots of fist fighting. Kicking, stepping, punching, and boxing is shown. They end up in bruises and bloody noses and faces.
A teen boy is brutally attacked by another teen (blood everywhere) and he has to go the the hospital.
A woman has her hand stabbed by a knife.
A person commits suicide. Their body is shown and we see their face with blood dripping from their eye and their nose. This is not too gory.
People cut a little part of their hand. Blood drips from the cut.
Someone is shot at the head. We see her corpse but we do not see the bullet or blood. We only see the legs and part for stomach.
Intense situations of fear and violence is shown in this movie. We see clips of peoples' fears and they're reaction to it. This can be too intense for younger audiences.
Towards the ending drugged members of a faction are shown shooting innocent people and dragging them out of their houses
A woman's hand has a knife thrown at it. We see some blood pouring from it.
There are many scenes where we see needles going into peoples necks. This may be disturbing to some viewers.
Profanity: mediocre, teen style swearing. Two uses of bitch One use of asshole 3 religious exclamations.
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: though not many drug scenes are used, when they are used they are very intense scenes
Members of the main faction are injected with needles that have a special Serum to induce nightmares for testing purposes. This is more medical though.
All the members of the faction are drugged with a serum that turns them into drones
Frightening/Intense Scenes:The entire movie is very intense and some scenes are frightening.
Two teenagers are brutally beat up, including the main character, and end up in the hospital.
The main character is beaten up and has a large bruise on her cheek that she holds an icepack to in the aftermath.
A teen boy is brutally attacked by another teen (blood everywhere) and he has to go the the hospital.
A teenager commits suicide, by throwing himself into a deep chasm, and it can be very emotionally upsetting for some people.
A girl's parents are both shot within a short time span, also emotionally upsetting.
A teenager is forced to kill one of their good friends. Very emotionally upsetting.
A girl is forced to fight her boyfriend who is taller and stronger than her, the whole scene is upsetting as he easily beats her until she can't fight anymore.
A girl's mother is shot and dies.
The scenes in which they have to escape their fears are extremely intense and can become frightening for younger viewers.
Story: Set in a futuristic dystopia where society is divided into five factions that each represent a different virtue, teenagers have to decide if they want to stay in their faction or switch to another - for the rest of their lives. Tris Prior makes a choice that surprises everyone. Then Tris and her fellow faction-members have to live through a highly competitive initiation process to live out the choice they have made. They must undergo extreme physical and intense psychological tests, that transform them all. But Tris has a secret that she is Divergent, which means she doesn't fit into any one group. If anyone knew, it would mean a certain death. As she discovers a growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly perfect society, this secret might help her save the people she loves... or it might destroy her.
Likes : Ive never read the book on this film, but Ive see from a few reviews of people that have read the book this film was spot on to the book which would make this a rare time that Hollywood has exactly saved the teenager type film in Hollywood.
Set in a futuristic Chicago, a community is enclosed behind an electrified fence. The community is split into 5 Factions to keep things running smoothly. The intelligent faction is known as the Erudite; the honest, Candor. The peaceful people are known as Amity, and the brave, Dauntless. The selfless faction, the one Beatrice belongs to, is Abnegation. One is born and raised in the faction of their parents. On your sixteenth birthday, teens undergo a test to see which faction they actual belong in. Regardless, a person can pick to be in any of the other four factions, or stay in the faction they were raised in.
When a teen chooses to leave the faction they were raised in, it is upsetting. They must say goodbye to their family. There is a good chance they will never see them again. And if you fail in your knew chosen faction, you can not return home. You become what is actually the 6th faction.
The Factionless -- those who don't belong to any faction, and live like the homeless, scavenging for food, and clothing, and shelter.
This is pretty well clear story-line from the start, there is mention of those out side of the city limits but never mention what they are or who they are,which i expect will come in to play if they do a sequel of this film.
The lead actress Shailene Woodley as Tris successfully portrays a confused yet brave teenager and captures innocence, while the lead actor Theo James as four renders a mature vibe that help save the movie from being categorized as yet another superficial teenage love story like twilight that people so love to complain about & compare other film like this to that..
Jai Courtney does the usual role hard ass trainer with a no wholes bar attitude & Kate Winslet pull off a brilliant performance as a hard ass ruthless bitch type business woman for a convincing character, i found this film good but there was a few flaws in the story-line it didn't help with the slowness at times but this is more of a story film than a action film. Its got that Hunger game's feel to it as in the way of a young girl being the heroine of the film, i feel her character will come in to play more in the next film, Acting is pretty solid nothing feels out of place apart from the story its a little flaw in curtain area's but this is not a bad film.
Dislikes : The pace of the film could of been a bit faster, i think a bit more action because it didnt really stand out for me as a perfect film it was missing something to give it the wow factor but as a story this film was good.
Overall : Pretty good story-line,pace is a little slow but still good storytelling.
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 for entertainment / 7 out of 10 for story-line/concept
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