The Divergent Series: Allegiant

The series has seen a steady decline from the surprisingly palatable opener, Divergent, with its political metaphors so smoothly handled. It became clunkier with subsequent chapters...

Allegiant a tedious exercise in futility even fans of the series will have a hard time finding anything worthwhile to talk about once it comes to an end.

Allegiant manages to be profoundly confusing and almost entirely inert. The film's strong action sequences can't redeem a conflicting, irritating plot.

After Allegiant, some moviegoers may decide their work with this franchise is done here.

So there's one more to come. It can only improve on this one, which manages to seem cluttered and empty at the same time.

It's not Allegiant so much as Ambivalent, Indulgent and even a little Feculent.

This is abysmal. The adaptation fundamentally misunderstands the source material, has terrible FX and an even worse Miles Teller performance. Worst of all, the film doesn't know how or when to use Woodley, who has always been the series' greatest asset

Builds to a finale that feels less like the culmination of three films than a last-minute justification for another sequel in an overlong, unwanted franchise.

The third installment of The Divergent Series shows a shiny new world that has become all too familiar to us and therefore delivers nothing new...

You can now add The Divergent Series to the number of film franchises that have suffered from studio greed and have failed audiences by unnecessarily splitting the last part of the story into two films.