‘Insurgent’ has the emotional intensity of androids reciting an instruction manual. There’s nothing new to see here, and it’s delivered in the most listless fashion possible. Even for a sci-fi soap opera, Insurgent feels lazy and uninspired.
A couple of years ago, a rather controversial and divisive pitch black comedy/murderous drama called Killer Joe rocked the Kasbah in critical terms, sharing the adulation of some and the damnation of others. It was grimy, grotty and often deliberately gratuitous (to the point that its most shocking scene earned a subtle nod on its DVD cover) and did a number of things apart from splitting a bemused audience right up the middle.
Author Veronica Roth’s award-winning Divergent Trilogy found its movie rights being snapped up before the series reached completion. Filming of the first novel, titled Divergent, is already underway, with direction from Neil Burger, working with a script from Evan Daugherty and Vanessa Taylor. Shailene Woodley takes the lead role, joined onscreen by Zoe Kravitz, Jai …