Allegiant

While the emphasis on technical gadgets in the plot has grown, there is also a deviation from the original source material. In this case, however, it is a good thing. Veronica Roth had a great idea with the whole Divergent series, but in the last installment, she took on too much. The whole plot went in all possible directions, new characters were introduced at such a rapid pace that there was no time for their thorough development, and in the end, we were left with a bearable book, but definitely the weakest part of the saga. To this day, it saddens me because I used to recommend it everywhere I went. Therefore, I had considerable concerns about the film adaptation, especially since it was divided into two parts. However, I was astonished by the result in the cinema. It took enough time to explain the motivations while still delivering great action sequences (such as the Four in the hovercraft) and allowing all the usual stars to shine (Miles Teller, for the third time, stealing scenes). From a tangled mess, it quickly turned into a fantastic blockbuster, which I must nonetheless remember with almost burning pain. Knowing the future twists from which this team would clearly have created a phenomenal finale, their cancellation and all subsequent manipulations with a TV movie or series that have led nowhere even three years later, are tying me up in knots. (14/03/2016)

Fifteen minutes of essentially forgettable and indistinct action scenes cannot make up for the lengthy blabber and constant explanations of new patterns of laws of this made-up dystopian world, dominated by digital gloss trying to make special a flat, empty and unnecessarily long, stupid story about genetic engineering, post-apocalyptic society and the meaning of categorizing people. Nothing interesting, exciting, funny or entertaining happens the entire time. The only positive stems from the decent craftsmanship and from the fact that, compared to previous works, the primitive romance and annoying traumas of the main protagonist have significantly decreased. Allegiant may not be downright uncomfortably obtuse, but it's still incredibly dull and about nothing, and there's really no reason to pay any attention to it at all. (10/03/2016)

If this series was somewhat interesting at the beginning, which I don't really think it was, at this point, it's falling into a sad stereotype and trying to be essentially just predictable, and visually appealing, but only for a moment, and then it becomes boring. The actors are extremely stereotypical and it is clear how the plot will develop. This just goes to show that modern young adult sci-fi doesn't have much potential. (10/08/2016)