It's good to be a teenager today. For this target audience, a crazy amount of fantasy is now being removed – as a relatively successful one (for example, " Hunger games "), And not very (" " Death tools "," Dedicated "," Guest "). Series " Sabotage ", Filmed according to Veronica's Books, is trying to become the second" Hungry games ", But so far it does not reach their level. The second film of the cycle, " Insurgent ", Is definitely more spectacular than the first, but it is still difficult to distinguish from countless brothers in the genre.

Director : Robert Schwentka Scriptwriters : Brian Daffield, Akiva Goldsman, Mark Bomback Cast : Sheilin Woodley, Theo James, Kate Winslet, Miles Teler The source : Book series Veronica Roth "Favorite" Premiere in Russia : March 19, 2015 Age rating : 16+ Similar films : series "Hunger Games", "Inhabited Island" (2009), "Dedicated" (2014)

The world is spinning around her

Who did not watch the first picture, at first he will not understand anything-but, however, and a little because of this will lose. In short – in the world of the era of post -apocalypse, people try to survive on the ruins of Chicago. Society was divided into five castes according to character traits. Those who approach more than one caste are considered “saboteurs” (that is, “deviating”) and destroy. The main character Tris and her boyfriend Ford, as the name is clear, sabotages.

A caste of “erudite” scientists acts against them and the tyranch Dzhanin leading it. She fights to preserve the caste system and tries to make her main caste. For some reason, Dzhanin believes that its power will intensify if you open a certain box with an ancient message. And only a divergent can do this, so that the indispensable tris will be taken alive.

► Smoked ivy ruins chicago look great. It is a pity that almost nothing interesting happens in them.

There is little logic in this plot, but it is not required to view. The whole first half of the film, the heroes simply roam almost aimlessly around the world, as if trying to show us more picturesque ruins of the post -apocalyptic chicago. Hiding from the bloody regime, they manage to visit the shelters of three fractions, without moving the plot from the dead point.

So that the audience does not get bored, the Schwentka stuffed the film with spectacular chase and fights. Compared to paintings of a similar orientation, like " Guns of death ", V " Insurgent »They shoot much more often than they kiss. Because of blood and deaths, the film even received in Russia an age rating of 16+, which may deprive the picture of its main audience-adolescents.

Sometimes action -packed scenes are inserted even contrary to plot logic. A long fight on the train, for example, turned out to be spectacular, but completely meaningless. As if the heroes could not say: “Hey, we are our own!", Without breaking up a couple of skulls.

But this really helps the film. It is not interesting to follow a common plot, but individual episodes tickle the nerves well. Moreover, the villains do not stand on ceremony and muffled secondary heroes with might and main. The main ones, of course, are inviolable. If they are in danger, then wait for a saving piano from the bushes.

► In this position, Tris will spend almost a third of the film. And the best.

Beautiful as a nuclear war

All really important events are on the third act domgame Casino " Insurgent "When Tris is in the local analogue" Matrices ". She has to go through a series of tests in which she learns different aspects of her personality. It is here that history begins to move forward, and the film is at least something different from a dozen other teenage anti-utopias.

Original finale " Insurgent »You can’t call it, but, unlike the beginning of the film, the last scenes are bright and spectacular. In addition, the picture looks much better than the first part. Graphic beauty at times even a bit too much. In scenes where Tris falls into virtual reality, the director just does not boast of a fair budget.

And, unlike the first " Divergent ", Which ended with an ellipsis," " Insurgent "Ends with a fairly clear ending, albeit with a hint of continuation. Perhaps, instead of chasing the Tris and company around the world, the scriptwriters should cut the text of Veronica Roth and fit the plots of two books in one picture. So the story would be more intelligible.

► It is difficult to believe that society that suffered from the Apocalypse could create such a spectacular virtual reality.

Battle with cardboard

Entertainment and action are two components that partly stretch " Insurgent ". A strong plot cannot boast of the film. A good cast is also not helped by it. Star " Obsession »Miles Teller was still lucky: the villain he plays at least funny. But the talent of the wonderful Kate Winslet is wasted on the role of the boring viper of the Evil Director class. Theo James, playing the handicap, is going on the whole film with one expression on his face.

These are not bad actors – they just have nothing to play. Their characters are nothing more than plot functions that exchange unnatural replicas, explaining their actions and emotions to the viewer. Sometimes it’s even funny – for example, when a villain Winslet reads propaganda speech. She gets something like “rumors that I organized a coup, zombie a soldier and dumped everything on saboteurs, are groundless”. Didn't they think of how to tell the new viewers the plot of the first film?

► World " Divergent "Similar to the world" Inhabited island ": Devastation, caste of outcasts, brainwashing. And Theo James suddenly looks like Peter Fedorov, who played Gai in the Bondarchuk film. True, Gaya hairstyle did not get him.

Probably, Shein Woodley, playing Tris, was the most difficult-a heroine with a contradictory and not very holistic way. She is either a boy-girl who solves all the problems with fists, then a closed loner overcome by nightmares, then chosen by Mary-Su, on which the world holds and which is ready to sacrifice himself. Collecting all this in a holistic image is very difficult. Therefore, Sheilin is almost not trying, but Tris plays on the principle of "I am all so sudden". She just modestly lowered her eyes, and after a minute she rushes at the interlocutor with a knife. It seems that in the anime such heroines are called "Yander".

But an amazing thing: at the same time, Sheilin is not at all annoying. Either because the oddities in the behavior of Tris can be accepted as another given in this strange world, or because it is simply pretty and tries to at least seem natural.

► A short haircut is clearly a shain woodli.

This is, in general, and himself " Insurgent ": From its graphics, landscapes, chases and battles you can enjoy if you turn off the brain. For a picture originally designed only for dreamy girls, this is a good achievement.

Rating

F

A film like a teenage girl: all the same stupid, but at least in two years it has become noticeably more beautiful.