Divergent Review

Hi everyone. I’m sure quite a few of you have seen the film by now. I actually saw a screening of it. I teamed up once again with my friends over at The Grand Shuckett to do a podcast review and discussion. Feel free to listen here:

My general take: it was a solid film, if a bit too long. I didn’t leave the theatre feeling completely pumped. Contrast that to a Captain America 2 screening that I saw just 2 days later where I left the theatre giddy as a school girl and wanting to see it again right away. I’ve only read the first Divergent novel and it was years ago, so for me I felt like it captured the tone of the book fairly well. I was a bit fuzzy on some details since it’s been a while (forgive me, I’ve read hundreds of books since then), but it did leave out a few key scenes that could have generated more intensity and interest for those who have not read the books. Overall it’s a decent book to movie adaptation.

Oh, and Theo James is a sexy beast. And he’s got acting chops too! It didn’t take me until Divergent to figure that out though. He’s been on the list since I first saw him in Underworld: Awakening in 2012. Yep. He can already cross vampire off his repertoire. All in all I thought the Divergent book was okay but not amazing, so I was never motivated to keep reading. I also wanted to hold out on finishing it if it was anything like The Hunger Games where I found myself liking each sequel less and less (though the Catching Fire film was admittedly amazing). From the sounds of things that would have been the case for me so I’m glad I dodged that bullet. As for the movies? I’ll definitely watch the sequels, especially because I know there will be more of this: