Tris escapes with Four to travel past the divider that encamps Chicago. Out of the blue, they leave the main city and family they have ever known to locate a peaceful solution. Once outside, they realized new realities that render old revelations useless.
Allegiant a tedious exercise in futility even fans of the series will have a hard time finding anything worthwhile to talk about once it comes to an end.
... okay for all ages who want something pretty to look at but no reason to use their brain except for a dopamine surge over tasty concession stand snacks.
Divergent feels like a hasty idea scribbled on construction paper, crumpled into a ball, and ditched in a mud puddle. Even it can't tell what it wanted to say.
At least Allegiant takes its team of rebels outside of the gloomy, forbidding walls of a rotting futuristic Chicago. Unfortunately, it treats the audience to a dour landscape and a cold, hi-tech palace.
These movies were never going to transform cinema, but watching Allegiant, it's hard not to feel as if someone has pulled the rug out from under an otherwise modestly entertaining franchise.
Allegiant aches to be a thought-provoking, moving allegory of the current world. Instead, it's an unwieldy two hours too unintentionally silly to validate how seriously it takes itself.
