Like the Hunger Games, but not really, Divergent is much like the first part of this sentence: very contradictory. Avoid.
It’s very much a by the numbers show with decent laughs, but it never really knocks it out of the park which is a pity because it tries very hard.
Denis tries too hard to turn what could have been a stylish revenge thriller into an jumble of pretentiousness.
A powerhouse of a film, driven by a remarkable central performance from Jack O'Connell. Prison dramas do not come better or tougher than this.
If you can look past the "America is great" sensibility, you will be rewarded with a well-paced, well-acted, brutally intense tale of brotherhood.