I went into the Insurgent film without a lot of high hopes. I came out quite surprised at how much I liked it, and even more surprised by the reason. Because it was the same reason that usually has me hating movie adaptations of favorite books. Because the filmmakers deviated so much from the source material. At the end of the day, this was an action movie loosely based on Roth’s Insurgent, not Insurgent:the Movie. If you are expecting as faithful a book adaptation as the Harry Potter and Hunger Games franchises, or even the first Divergent movie, you will be disappointed. The percentage of book-congruent material is closer to that of the Little House TV series. But remarkably, the film mostly worked for me.
To be fair up front, every worry I expressed in my comments on the trailers came true. Except the one about the train. Turns out Four did have a good reason for leaping in front of the train. But I digress. Spoilers ahead, after the jump.
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