MOVIE REVIEW: Insurgent

 

Insurgent

Movie Review!

Alright ladies and gents it's time for another movie review because I could not pass it up! I have come to like doing these movie reviews as it let's me express myself..about how much I still do not like books becoming movie adaptations..okay that is a lie I LOVE books becoming movies. Yet, like everyone else, I get upset at the things that are changed...that is why my friends you can never please a book addict when it comes to movie adaptations of books. 

I will not lie and say that this movie was bad because it was far from it! I loved the action, the slight romance (that really did not show as much), the plot (that still was kinda not there), and all the drama that went with the book! 

I love the actors Theo James (who is my bae) and Shailene Woodley. I will give the director credit for picking actors that fit the description of the Tris and Four. They both show the right emotions when it is needed and they both act perfectly together.

What bothered me the most was the huge changes they made from the book. The first movie - Divergent - had followed the book fairly well, to my belief any way. The Insurgent adaptation, while followed the main themes, did not really follow the book at all...ESPECIALLY THE ENDING. Which is all Im going to say about the ending. I just could not believe how many things changed. My sister in-law and I sat there and pretty much counted how many things were missing or put in place. 

It was not small things missing but the large parts; it was the important aspects of the book that helps understand the next book - Alligiant.

However, in the end I still loved the movie. 

RATING: 5.5/10

(according to the IMDB rating system)

p.s I am sorry for the bad blogging lately! Finals are once again around the corner and it so hard for to post or do videos at this moment in time :(

BOOK REVIEW: Allegiant (Divergent #3) by Veronica Roth

Name: Allegiant (Divergent #3)
Author: Veronica Roth
Number of Pages: 526
Publisher: Katherine Tegan Books
Date Published: October 22nd, 2013
Source: Review (Bought)
Rate: 3.8/5

The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered--fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she’s known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories.

But Tris’s new reality is even more alarming than the one she left behind. Old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless. Explosive new truths change the hearts of those she loves. And once again, Tris must battle to comprehend the complexities of human nature--and of herself--while facing impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice, and love. 

[Summary from Goodreads] [AMAZON]

BOOK REVIEW: Insurgent by Veronica Roth

Name: Insurgent (Divergent #2)
Author: Veronica Roth
Number of Pages: 525
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
Date Published: May 1st, 2012
Source: Review (Bought)
Rate: 4/5

One choice can transform you—or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves—and herself—while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.

Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable—and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so.
[Summary taken from Goodreads] [AMAZON]

BOOK REVIEW -- Divergent by Veronica Roth

Name: Divergent (Divergent #1)
Author: Veronica Roth
Number of Pages: 487
Publisher: Katherina Tegan Books
Date Published: February 28th, 2012
Source: Review (Bought)
Rate: 4/5

In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue--Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is--she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.

During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are--and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, Tris also learns that her secret might help her save the ones she loves . . . or it might destroy her.
[Summary from GoodReads][AMAZON-BUY]

BOOK REVIEW: Four: A Divergent Collection by Veronica Roth

  Name: Four: A Divergent Collection

  Author: Veronica Roth

  Number of Pages: 208

  Publisher: HarperCollins

  Date Published: July 8th, 2014

  Source: Review (Bought)

  Rating: 4/5

Two years before Beatrice Prior made her choice, the sixteen-year-old son of Abnegation’s faction leader did the same. Tobias’s transfer to Dauntless is a chance to begin again. Here, he will not be called the name his parents gave him. Here, he will not let fear turn him into a cowering child.

Newly christened “Four,” he discovers during initiation that he will succeed in Dauntless. Initiation is only the beginning, though; Four must claim his place in the Dauntless hierarchy. His decisions will affect future initiates as well as uncover secrets that could threaten his own future—and the future of the entire faction system.

Two years later, Four is poised to take action, but the course is still unclear. The first new initiate who jumps into the net might change all that. With her, the way to righting their world might become clear. With her, it might become possible to be Tobias once again.

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