Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton venture into the world outside of the fence and are taken into protective custody by a mysterious agency known as the Bureau of Genetic Welfare.
Credits: TheMovieDb.
Film Cast:
- Beatrice “Tris” Prior: Shailene Woodley
- Tobias “Four” Eaton: Theo James
- Christina: Zoë Kravitz
- Peter Hayes: Miles Teller
- David: Jeff Daniels
- Evelyn Johnson-Eaton: Naomi Watts
- Caleb Prior: Ansel Elgort
- Johanna Reyes: Octavia Spencer
- Uriah Pedrad: Keiynan Lonsdale
- Jack Kang: Daniel Dae Kim
- Tori Wu: Maggie Q
- Matthew: Bill Skarsgård
- Edgar: Jonny Weston
- Nita: Nadia Hilker
- Romit: Andy Bean
- Marcus Eaton: Ray Stevenson
- Max: Mekhi Phifer
- Hollis: Joseph David-Jones
- Natalie Prior: Ashley Judd
- Phillip: Xander Berkeley
- Regina: Parisa Johnston
- Sarah: Rebecca Pidgeon
- Jasper: Konrad Howard
- Eulis: Theo Howard
- Laura: Lucella Costa
- Zoe: Amy Parrish
- Tom: Ken DuBois
- Edith Prior: Janet McTeer
- Fringe Father: Thomas Blake Jr.
- Fringe Parent: Julie Ivey
- Factionless Guard: Kyle Clements
- Crush Girl #2: Hannah Riley
- Groupie Babe #1: Autumn Dial
- Anna: Courtney Hope
- Young Four: Ian Belgard
- Bureau Army (uncredited): Timothy Carr
- Factionless Soldier (uncredited): Conphidance
- Perfexia Son In Law: Anthony K. Hyatt
Film Crew:
- Producer: Douglas Wick
- Casting: Mary Vernieu
- Costume Design: Marlene Stewart
- Director of Photography: Florian Ballhaus
- Sound Designer: Steve Boeddeker
- Set Designer: Stella Vaccaro
- ADR Mixer: Doc Kane
- Production Design: Alec Hammond
- Unit Production Manager: Barry H. Waldman
- Second Unit Director of Photography: Patrick Loungway
- Assistant Editor: Dov Samuel
- Key Makeup Artist: Diane Heller
- Executive Producer: Neil Burger
- Screenplay: Stephen Chbosky
- Producer: Lucy Fisher
- Editor: Stuart Levy
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Stefen Fangmeier
- Executive Producer: David Hoberman
- Concept Artist: David Swayze
- Assistant Costume Designer: Daniel J. Lester
- Music Supervisor: Randall Poster
- Casting: Venus Kanani
- Utility Stunts: Jean Claude Leuyer
- ADR Recordist: David Lucarelli
- ADR Mixer: Charleen Richards
- Director: Robert Schwentke
- Screenplay: Adam Cooper
- Screenplay: Bill Collage
- Set Decoration: Kathy Lucas
- Executive Producer: Todd Lieberman
- Supervising Art Director: Alan Hook
- Supervising Sound Editor: Matthew Wood
- Executive In Charge Of Production: Donna Sloan
- Other: Shane Carruth
- Utility Stunts: Mark Hicks
- Storyboard Artist: John Coven
- Utility Stunts: Yan Dron
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Gary Rizzo
- ADR Voice Casting: Barbara Harris
- Utility Stunts: Reuben Langdon
- Utility Stunts: Roel Failma
- Foley: Margie O’Malley
- Concept Artist: Raj Rihal
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Beau Borders
- Senior Visual Effects Supervisor: Pierre Buffin
- Utility Stunts: Michael Duisenberg
- “A” Camera Operator: Thomas Lappin
- Concept Artist: Kasra Farahani
- Original Music Composer: Joseph Trapanese
- Utility Stunts: Richard King
- Utility Stunts: Reid Harper
- Screenplay: Noah Oppenheim
- Utility Stunts: Max Calder
- Utility Stunts: Michael Li
- Utility Stunts: David Conk
- Utility Stunts: Joshua Lamboy
- Makeup Department Head: Edouard F. Henriques
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Vincent Cirelli
- Set Designer: Sarah Forrest
- Producer: Pouya Shahbazian
- Utility Stunts: Salar Ghajar
- Novel: Veronica Roth
- Music Editor: Sam Zeines
- Location Manager: Julie Hannum
- Dialect Coach: Tanera Marshall
- Transportation Coordinator: Denny Caira
- Set Designer: Tim Croshaw
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Ilona Blyth
- Utility Stunts: Jwaundace Candece
- Set Designer: C. Scott Baker
- Special Effects Supervisor: Eric Frazier
- Utility Stunts: Raven-Danielle Baker
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Paul Butterworth
- Visual Effects Producer: Max Leonard
- Utility Stunts: Troy Faruk
- Script Supervisor: Alicia Accardo
- Stunt Coordinator: Chris O’Hara
- Utility Stunts: Keith Adams
- Set Costumer: Bob Moore Jr.
- Still Photographer: Murray Close
- Gaffer: Joshua Davis
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Tim LeDoux
- Visual Effects Producer: Jason Sanford
- Visual Effects Producer: Allan Magled
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Kirsty Millar
- Sound Effects Editor: Robert Shoup
- Sound Effects Editor: David C. Hughes
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Michael Minkler
- Art Direction: Scott Dougan
- Set Costumer: Sean Haley
- Construction Coordinator: Greg John Callas
- Hair Department Head: Yolanda Toussieng
- Utility Stunts: Gee Alexander
- Set Designer: Mayumi Konishi-Valentine
- Armorer: Otniel Gonzalez
- Visual Effects Producer: Erika A. McKee
- Art Direction: Alex McCarroll
- Digital Intermediate Producer: Christian Prejza
- ADR Editor: Lisa J. Levine
- CG Supervisor: Pavel Pranevsky
- Animation Supervisor: Pimentel A. Raphael
- Visual Effects Producer: Jason Bath
- Set Designer: Jane Wuu
- Makeup Artist: Michal Bigger
- Rigging Gaffer: Mike Tyson
- Property Master: John Bankson
- Costume Supervisor: Richard Schoen
- Utility Stunts: Craig Frosty Silva
- Digital Intermediate: Andy Kaplan
- Foley: Andrea Gard
- Second Unit Director: James Madigan
- Visual Effects Editor: Shannon Leigh Olds
- Production Supervisor: Mika Saito
- Unit Publicist: Toni Atterbury
- Gaffer: Chris Culliton
- “B” Camera Operator: David J. Thompson
- Digital Intermediate: Thom Whitehead
- Dolby Consultant: Bryan Pennington
- Hairstylist: Ryan Trygstad
- Utility Stunts: T. Ryan Mooney
- ADR Engineer: Derek Casari
- First Assistant Editor: Tony Bacigalupi
- Additional Editor: David Massachi
- Visual Effects Producer: Adam O’Brien-Locke
- Stunt Double: Paul Lacovara
- Utility Stunts: Steve Rummenie
- Utility Stunts: Amy Lynn Tuttle
- Storyboard Artist: Darek Gogol
- Concept Artist: Craig Shoji
- Storyboard Artist: Amy Lynn Umezu
- Assistant Sound Editor: Trey Turner
- Utility Stunts: Dean Bailey
- Utility Stunts: Jacob Chambers
- Stunt Double: Jenn A. Harris
- Utility Stunts: Tony McFarr
- Key Hair Stylist: Cheryl Daniels
- Makeup Artist: Claudia Humburg
- Hairstylist: Wyatt Belton
- Visual Effects Producer: Fabrice Lett
- Associate Producer: Julia Enescu
- First Assistant Director: John Wildermuth
- Co-Producer: Charlie Morrison
- Art Department Coordinator: Chloe Lipp
- Utility Stunts: Nick DeKay
- Utility Stunts: Nick Stanner
- Set Costumer: Les Morgan
- Utility Stunts: Scott Hunter
- Associate Producer: Debbi Bossi
- Orchestrator: Jennifer Hammond
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Laurent Spillemaecker
- Costumer: Danny Molaschi
- Assistant Art Director: Rachel Block
- ADR Supervisor: Christopher Barnett
- Utility Stunts: Bob Fisher
- Utility Stunts: Bobby Jordan
- First Assistant “B” Camera: Don Steinberg
- Orchestrator: David Butterworth
- Production Sound Mixer: Peter J. Devlin
- Boom Operator: Kevin Cerchiai
- Travel Coordinator: Mark Swenson
- Script Coordinator: Jessica Kivnik
- Camera Operator: Eric Laudadio
- CG Supervisor: Sebastien Francoeur
- VFX Editor: Pascal Rigaud
- VFX Supervisor: Tom Wood
- Foley Supervisor: Frank Rinella
- Foley: Ronni Brown
- Utility Stunts: Keith Splinter Davis
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Cole Darby
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Sara Bourque
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Adam Pere
- Utility Stunts: Nikki Tomlinson
- CGI Supervisor: Richard Sutherland
- Animation: Ran Sieradzki
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Chris LeDoux
- Utility Stunts: Ben Aycrigg
- Utility Stunts: Kelly Bellini
- Utility Stunts: Marcelle Coletti
- Utility Stunts: Kevin Dyer
- Utility Stunts: Reece Fleetwood
- Utility Stunts: Jeremy Fry
- Utility Stunts: Crystal Hooks
- Utility Stunts: Jared Losano
- Utility Stunts: Christopher Tardieu
- Utility Stunts: Jaye Tyroff
- Visual Effects Editor: Rachel Litz
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Jeremy Robert
- Best Boy Electric: Jarek Gorczycki
- Key Rigging Grip: Craig Vaccaro
- Casting Associate: Riva Cahn Thompson
- Assistant Costume Designer: Valerie Laven-Cooper
- Hairstylist: Deaundra Harris-Metzger
- Makeup Artist: Duane Saylor
- Camera Operator: Preston Ryon
- Animation Director: Josh Novak
- CG Supervisor: Oded Raz
- CG Supervisor: Colin Ebbeson
- CG Supervisor: Raphael Letertre
- Sequence Supervisor: Gabriel Saint-Aubin
- Sequence Supervisor: Jonathan Larose
- Sequence Supervisor: Simon Leclair
- Sequence Supervisor: Brendan Seals
- VFX Editor: Céline Zapater
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Nick Bernardi
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Octevia Robertson
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Lorna Kidjo
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Louis-Charles Lapointe
- Visual Effects Producer: Mickey Levy
- Visual Effects Producer: Patrice Cormier
- Visual Effects Producer: Claudia Butenberg
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Mark Stasiuk
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Nhat Phong Tran
- Dialogue Editor: James Spencer
- Researcher: Lizzy Jane Klein
- Special Effects Technician: Richard Jacobs
- Utility Stunts: Josh Mueller
- Utility Stunts: Josh Diogo
- Utility Stunts: Haley Nott
- Utility Stunts: Maya Santandrea
- Utility Stunts: Eric Benson
- Animation: Justin Brunett
- Animation: Ngan Chung
- Animation: Meghan Grube
- CG Supervisor: Andrew Zink
- Utility Stunts: Adam Lytle
- 2D Supervisor: Alexandre Cancado
- Key Grip: Charlie Marroquin
- Foley Editor: Kimberly Patrick
- Second Assistant Director: Christina Fong
- Key Costumer: Valerie T. O’Brien
- Utility Stunts: Nicholas Hayner
- Utility Stunts: Donny Carrington
- Set Dresser: John France
- Utility Stunts: Michael Yahn
- Utility Stunts: Jason Charles Hill
- Special Effects Technician: Chad Pruett
- Utility Stunts: Remington Steele
- Utility Stunts: Bayland Rippenkroeger
- Utility Stunts: Jessica Merideth
- Stunt Double: Daniel Hargrave
- Utility Stunts: Niko Nedyalkov
- Utility Stunts: Brian Philpot
- Utility Stunts: Curtis Lyons
- Utility Stunts: Jon Walker Schmidt
- Utility Stunts: John J. Shim
- Utility Stunts: Ryan Stratis
- Utility Stunts: Alessandro Folchitto
- Compositing Supervisor: Olivier Blanchet
- Roto Supervisor: Vaughn Arnup
- Utility Stunts: Matt Philliben
- Matchmove Supervisor: Etienne Poulin St-Laurent
- Studio Teacher: Celena Shackelford Cater
- Digital Effects Supervisor: Justin Johnson
- Matte Painter: Rocco Gioffre
- Visual Effects Producer: Kelly McCarthy
- Additional Second Assistant Director: Samantha Smith McGrady
- Production Coordinator: Paula Stier
- Post Production Accountant: Emily Rice
- Ager/Dyer: Travis Scott Merrill
- Foley Editor: Richard Gould
- Assistant Editor: Michael Goldberg
- Utility Stunts: Marcus Lewis
- Compositing Supervisor: Aaron Barclay
- Casting Assistant: Kirsten Marbert
- Matte Painter: Dhamindra Jeevan
- Matte Painter: Mai-Anh Tran
- Matte Painter: Matthieu Veillette
- Payroll Accountant: Jeffrey Gladu
- Rigging Grip: Tim Richeson
- First Assistant “A” Camera: Peter Byrne
- Additional Second Assistant Director: Katye Kalivoda
- Seamstress: Diane J. Harriday
- Second Assistant “B” Camera: Daniel Wurschl
- Ager/Dyer: Stephanie Herrera
- Post Production Accountant: Ron Segro
- Matte Painter: Éric Hamel
- Compositing Supervisor: Tom McHattie
- Storyboard Artist: Jonathan Gesinski
- Utility Stunts: Derek Alfonso
- Matte Painter: Vincent Fiere
- Compositing Artist: Matt Greig
- Compositing Artist: Norah Mulroney
- Compositing Lead: Tyson Donnelly
- VFX Artist: Cyril Balavoine
- Matte Painter: Francois Croteau
- Matte Painter: Antoine Goncalves
- Set Decoration Buyer: Charlotte Lee
- Utility Stunts: Jason Shupe
- Grip: Charles Arnold
- Grip: Jeremy Wisham
- Compositing Artist: Shane Rabey
- Lead Animator: Marco Capparelli
- Best Boy Grip: Nick Haines-Stiles
- Special Effects Technician: Casey D. Noel
- Assistant Production Coordinator: David Halagarda
- Second Second Assistant Director: James McGrady
- Special Effects Technician: John Wonser
- Utility Stunts: Chad Bowman
- Second Assistant Accountant: Rufus Rosendo
- Production Accountant: Matthew K. Grigsby
- Storyboard Artist: John Mann
- Greensman: Larry Scott
- Compositing Artist: Susan Immomen
- Utility Stunts: Gary Peebles
- First Assistant Accountant: Tracy Browne
- Utility Stunts: Alan D’Antoni
- Utility Stunts: Kyle McDuffie
- Utility Stunts: Jeremy Conner
- Utility Stunts: Ashley Rae Trisler
- ADR Recordist: Jeannette Browning
- Utility Stunts: Daniel Norris
- Utility Stunts: Antjuan Rhames
- Matte Painter: Mujia Liao
- Utility Stunts: Todd Rogers Terry
- Utility Stunts: Jessica Nam
- Additional Second Assistant Director: Chad Wheeler
- Utility Stunts: Nate Hitpas
- Utility Stunts: Spencer Mulligan
- Utility Stunts: R. Matthew Scheib
- Utility Stunts: Alex Hashioka
- Set Dresser: Eric Sherlin
- Utility Stunts: Miles Brew
- Rotoscoping Artist: Josh Azzopardi
- Rotoscoping Artist: Will Hackett
- Additional Second Assistant Director: Kate Pulley
- Costumer: Judy Chang
- Utility Stunts: Dante Ha
- Rigging Grip: Thabo Mokgotho
- Compositing Artist: Josh Hulands
- Second Assistant Accountant: Gaytra Arnold
- Matte Painter: Samantha Combaluzier
- Compositing Artist: Matthew Wynne
- Transportation Captain: Wallace Frick
Movie Reviews:
- Frank Ochieng: The first compulsion is to reach for an unflattering label when dubbing the third installment of the **Divergent** series as “the poor man’s **Hunger Games**”. Sure, the comparison was inevitable but all the Divergent editions had to do was prove that the unfair comparing and contrasting were wrong. Well, the knockoff status was indeed warranted and unfortunately this copycat YA Sci-Fi serving of a harried heroine and her excitable dystopian dealings never mustered up the kind of distinctive expectations that failed to fuel this flaccid futuristic fable. Hence, **The Divergent Series: Allegiant** is an over-stuffed mechanical continuation of a familiar film franchise trying desperately to fulfill its colorful action-packed whimsy left over by its pumped-up predecessors.
As mentioned, **Allegiant** is the third episode of the **Divergent** movie series. Of course Veronica Roth is the literary voice responsible for the books on which these films are based. Jokingly, one would probably imagine that both Roth and **Hunger Games** author Suzanne Collins are twin sisters seeing as though their imaginative wells of creativity are similar in style and content. The only difference is that Collins’s notable blueprint registered with forceful reception while Roth’s wannabe material was like an identical shadow trying to break out in its own shade.
Basically, **Allegiant** (much like the rest of the YA genre) is a glorified teen soap opera bombarded with awesome ray guns and youthful cynicism aimed at the controlling over-30 Establishment. Distrust and disillusionment is the recurring theme and the penalty for being young, attractive, repressed and rebellious is a cautionary tale for those that want to challenge the sinister Authority. As with **The Hunger Games’** Katniss Everdeen (played by Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence) we are subjected to Divergent diva Tris Pryor (Shailine Woodley) as the feminine firecracker ready to spring into action defeating the aging forces threatening their post- apocalyptic presence. Unfortunately for Woodley’s Tris she does not possess the explosive brooding or riveting material and eye-opening challenges that Lawrence’s Katniss was blessed with from the get-go. At least one common denominator is clear: both bad-ass babes have totally catchy, cool-sounding names, right?
The sluggish plotting in **Allegiant** revisits the enclosed post-apocalyptic Chicago where various “factions” of young folks are furiously fighting with one another. The tension is percolating big time as the trapped youthful residents are growing increasingly restless. The disenchanted Tris, along with her studly boyfriend Four (Theo James) and group of rebels, decide to break out of their Chicago-bound doldrums and climb the wall to escape their entrapment. Of course this means crossing over some treacherous terrain to reach a more, idyllic surrounding. The destination, as it turns out, is the comfortable haven for the monitoring overlords spying their every step.
Thankfully, Tris and her bunch stumble upon a picturesque civilization headed by leader David (Emmy-winner Jeff Daniels). The surroundings look idyllic but David is very shady because his agenda is to recruit the pure and precious Tris for his genetic experimentation. With Tris as his main guinea pig the devious David can plan on using his experimental agenda on the underprivileged pretty kids back in the walled-off Chicago. The educated guess is that David most likely would extend the same kind of testing treatment for “the Fringes” as well (they are the masses that exist outside the wall of Chicago in less flattering pockets of the region). In any event, Tris represents the ideal vision for his replication of purity and perfection to be transferred to the “damaged” souls out there. While Tris is intrigued by the CEO’s intention for bettering the impoverished population Four is skeptical about David’s focus on his gun-toting honey bunny.
To say that **The Divergent Series–Allegiant** is clunky and convoluted even for a showy older kiddie caper is an understatement to say the least. Director Robert Schwentke is basically on auto pilot here as the cameras roll while capturing the drawn out degrees of splashy stunts, showdowns and bombastic special effects flourishes. The silly-minded plot and utter familiarity of the “Big Brother watching over the young perished pretty people” feels empty and repetitive at its compelling core. One cannot perceive the transparent concept of **Allegiant** going through the motions without looking at this anemic actioner as a convenient means to bridge the upcoming remaining installments to protect its promising box office clout. So for those looking forward to **Ascendant** please hold your horses because this is what **Allegiant** strives for…to make one salivate over the next due edition to this tiring movie series.
Sure, **The Divergent Series–Allegiant** and perhaps **Ascendant** will offer more of the same and if this is something that its avid fans do not mind then fine…knock yourselves out to your heart’s redundant content.
**The Divergent Series–Allegiant** (2016)
Lionsgate
2 hrs. 1 min.
Starring: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Ray Stevenson, Jeff Daniels, Zoe Kravitz and Miles Teller
Directed by: Robert Schwentke
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genre: Sci-Fi/Action & Adventure/Fantasy/Romance
Critic’s Rating: ** stars (out of 4 stars)
(c) Frank Ochieng 2016
- Reno: > Realising what’s left behind was the home.
Here comes the most expected adventure in the ‘Divergent’ series. I always wondered what lies outside the wall. So this sequel takes us to the new land where a fresh development takes place. A few old characters were terminated in order to introduce a bunch of new ones. As a theme, it just looked like ‘The Scorch Trial’, but of course totally a different setting.
The director was retained from the previous installment and I think he did a good job. The concept was too familiar. ‘Scorch Trial’, ‘Catching Fire’, ‘Aeon Flux’, all these films are just like this one. Thankfully, this story was decent. At least better than the previous and weaker than the first. The pace drastically held back due to the split of a book into two films. It has been done in the old days, but the present trend began after ‘Deathly Hallows’.
I was excited to know how big stretch it is going to be as a story wise. Because it looked like the things they’ve accomplished in one place and looking to explore beyond the boundary. I couldn’t predict the story, but I knew what’s going to happen in the end of every scene. The dystopian theme was clichéd, not the storyline. The way it ended is a sign for a big finale to commence in the final film of the series. Let’s hope for ‘Ascendant’ to end on a high note.
6/10