Reviews for this film from our members:
- [New – 10/20/15] | Dragan Antulov @ Draxblog VI [Croatian]
- Marina Antunes @ Quiet Earth
- José Arce @ LaButaca.net [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Shailene Woodley y Theo James siguen viviendo la revolución en una secuela más dinámica y espectacular que la primera entrega pero bastante sosaina e inconsistente en general. Lo que se podía esperar: flojera artística, furor industrial. Vale.
- Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
- Excerpt: The weak kneed origin story of Beatrice (Tris, if you please) Prior is replaced with this battle cry that deflects its significant shortcomings with action distraction, a trend often evident in the general mid-chapter franchise treatment
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: A dystopian drama that salutes the heroism and compassion of a gifted young woman.
- Kevin Carr @ 7M Pictures
- Excerpt: “Insurgent” still suffers from the same dumbed-down science fiction storytelling and teen angst reliance that we saw in the first film.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: With new screenwriters, new director Robert Schwentke at the helm and a few new players joining the franchise, “Insurgent” is a little better than the first installment, if no less derivative of other dystopian YA series.
- Jim Dixon @ Examiner.com
- M. Enois Duarte @ High-Def Digest.com
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: [L]et’s be clear: This is only slightly better than the last movie, with “slightly” being the key.
- James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Excerpt: Insurgent’ Is A Step In The Right Direction, But Still Falls Into The Same Old Traps As ‘Divergent’
- Hugo Gomes @ http://cinematograficamentefalando.blogs.sapo.pt [Portuguese]
- Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: ‘Insurgent’ is the second part in a trilogy that takes its characters on a new but somewhat familiar path in anticipation of a totally different course in the closing chapter.
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: An angst-riddled, fast-paced sequel – a “Hunger Games” wannabe
- Vadym Grygoriev @ kinoblog.com [Ukrainian]
- Roderick Heath @ This Island Rod
- Excerpt: If Divergent took too long to get around to its bluntly enjoyable melodrama, Insurgent leaps into the fray with plenty of action.
- Travis Hopson @ Punch Drunk Critics
- Excerpt: The bombastic and far more satisfying sequel Insurgent succeeds because it doesn’t bother explaining a darn thing.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Sneakily undercuts tropes of the young-adult hero’s journey. But in a more adventurous movie environment, this wouldn’t feel this fresh as it does.
- Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Excerpt: Another girl with special skills confronts a despot while screaming, “I can’t let anyone else die because of me!”
- Ben Kendrick @ Screen Rant
- Excerpt: Insurgent falls short of hitting the bar set by superior YA film adaptations but is a step in the right direction for the Divergent series.
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: As a passable entertainment that’s capably directed but mechanical, “Insurgent” mostly does the trick, being involving and pacey enough to sustain itself, but it’s still a take-it-or-leave-it affair.
- Kristin Dreyer Kramer @ NightsAndWeekends.com
- Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
- Excerpt: As their society crumbles around them, Tris Prior must lead a band of divergents across a vast wasteland of corruption and danger in the meandering sequel “Insurgent.”
- Dan Lybarger @ ArkansasOnline.com
- Excerpt: It takes a unique move to make Chicago dull.
- James Marsh @ Twitch
- Excerpt: Part two of the big screen adaptation of Veronica Roth’s bestselling series of YA sci-fi novels boasts a larger budget and sharper hairstyles than its predecessor, but remains incapable of stepping out from the long shadow cast by rival franchise The Hunger Games. Even with a central cast that reads like a who’s who of Hollywood’s young elite, and a supporting roster boasting at least two Oscar winners, Insurgent is the awkward middle chapter in a saga crippled by a nonsensical narrative and derivative aesthetic that no amount of flashy CGI action can cover up.
- Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
- Ross Miller @ Thoughts On Film
- Excerpt: Despite some bright sparks in the cast and a couple of diverting set-pieces, [Insurgent] is confused, derivative and more than a little bit dull.
- Jared Mobarak @ Jared Mobarak Reviews
- Pat Mullen @ Cinemablographer
- Excerpt: If Insurgent echoes the Mockingjay too strongly, however, it mostly feels a little late joining in on the chorus of “The Hanging Tree.”
- Stefan Pape @ HeyUGuys
- Jason Pirodsky @ Expats.cz
- Excerpt: Insurgent is nuts from the get-go. Director Robert Schwentke (Red, R.I.P.D.) displays little feel for the material, and simple coherence is a huge problem for the duration.
- Nuno Reis @ SciFiWorld Portugal [Portuguese]
- Diego Salgado @ Guía del Ocio [Spanish]
- Amir Siregar @ Amir at the Movies [Indonesian]
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: An improvement on its predecessor…a workmanlike job, if not an inspired one.
- Kent Turner @ Schoollibraryjournal.com
- Sarah Ward @ Concrete Playground
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