Divergent (2014) 8/10

Starring : Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Ashley Judd, Jai Courtney, Ray Stevenson, Zoe Kravitz, Miles Teller, Tony Goldwyn, Ansel Elgort, Maggie Q, Mekhi Phifer, Kate Winslet
Director : Neil Burger
Running Time : 140 mins

In the future society has divided into five distinct factions, none of which are interchangeable, and teenagers must choose their factions for life. When Tris Prior (Woodley) discovers that she is what is known as Divergent, meaning that she can easily fit into any faction while not really fitting into any one, she discovers that her life is in danger if anyone were to find out...

This was actually a reasonable teen sci-fi drama that had some pretty good acting and a reasonably decent script, though some of the reasoning behind Tris’s decisions isn’t explained very well. It was nice to see Woodley and Teller on screen again following their awesome performance in The Spectacular Now and, though the plot is reminiscent of many other teen fictions of recent years, this is still an action packed and though provoking flick.

You’ll like this if you liked : The Hunger Games : Catching Fire