How's this for a movie pitch. It's based on a global best seller so it's gonna be good... The world has been ravaged by war. The surviving humans have been divided up into different clans... We'll call them 'Factions' for the sake of argument. Emerging from this dystopian order comes a young, strong female lead who's different.... Sound familiar? That's right, it's The Hunger Games.. And there's the problem.. To use a gaming analogy if 'The Hunger Games' is Half Life then 'Divergent' is Counter-strike. You use the basic engine of a good game, change some of the details and there you have it. The same could be said with the Percy Jackson movies and they're based on the very successful 'Harry Potter' engine..
That being said the performances were good and the CGi was good enough that you didn't notice it..
The question is 'will it generate enough interest to start a franchise?'. Or will it end up another 'Golden Compass' or 'The Seeker:The Dark is Rising'?
Out of the films I've seen this weekend it's better than Noah.... but not by much..
Rating: **1/2
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