Allegiant

Actors: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Jeff Daniels, Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort, Zoë Kravitz, Maggie Q, Ray Stevenson, Bill Skarsgard, Octavia Spencer, Naomi Watts

Rating: 6 out of 10, It is as bad as you’ve probably heard. They followed the tried and true method of splitting up the last book in a trilogy in the interest of making more money on two versus one film. Hopefully this will crash and burn so badly that Hollywood abandons that flawed concept. Losing Kate Winslet really hurts because surprisingly Naomi Watts as one of the lead villains fails miserably. They also kill off Maggie Q early which I took a personal affront to. Our jolly band of angst filled teenagers is bound and determined to escape the walled in existence in Chicago to investigate the burned landscape outside. Of course they discover an even more sinister threat beyond the blasted lands, led by eerily evil bureaucrat (I know – redundant) Jeff Daniels. They spend way too much time in CGI world instead of with the fine actors which was the strength of the earlier movies. If you saw the trailer for this movie (hard to avoid that) then you know the entire plot, which really is just a placeholder for the final (they promise) movie in this series.

MVP: Theo James as he plucky Four, who takes a beating and still keeps kicking