Divergent (2014) movie poster

Divergent (2014)

"What makes you different makes you dangerous."
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👍 68%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 44%
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Director
Runtime
2h 20m
Rated
PG-13
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
6.9/10 (13,350 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
41%
Metacritic
48

Cast

Shailene Woodley as Beatrice 'Tris' Prior · 67% avg
Theo James as Tobias 'Four' Eaton · 62% avg
Zoë Kravitz as Christina · 72% avg
Miles Teller as Peter Hayes · 69% avg
Jai Courtney as Eric Coulter · 68% avg
Ansel Elgort as Caleb Prior · 66% avg
Ashley Judd as Natalie Prior · 71% avg
Tony Goldwyn as Andrew Prior · 71% avg

Is Divergent good?

It's divisive. Only 68% of audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 44%, but audiences disagreed.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#1338 / 1971 · Action
Rank in its year
#191 / 295 · 2014
Rank among its director's films
#4 / 5 · Neil Burger

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

In a world divided into factions based on personality types, Tris learns that she's been classified as Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it's too late. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Divergent is a 2014 American dystopian science fiction action film directed by Neil Burger, based on Veronica Roth's bestselling 2011 novel. Set in a future Chicago where society is divided into five factions based on personality traits — Abnegation (selfless), Amity (peaceful), Candor (honest), Dauntless (brave), and Erudite (intelligent) — the film follows Beatrice "Tris" Prior, played by Shailene Woodley, who discovers during her faction aptitude test that she is "Divergent," meaning she doesn't fit neatly into any single category. Choosing to leave her family's Abnegation faction for the physically demanding Dauntless, Tris must survive a brutal initiation process while hiding her Divergent nature, which threatens the power structure maintained by the Erudite faction's leader Jeanine Matthews, played by Kate Winslet.

Divergent arrived at the peak of the young adult dystopian adaptation wave launched by The Hunger Games, and while it drew inevitable comparisons, the film carved its own identity through its focus on identity, conformity, and the danger of systems that reduce people to a single defining trait. Shailene Woodley brought an understated naturalism to Tris that distinguished her from the more archetypal heroines of competing franchises. Theo James as the mysterious instructor Four provided the requisite romantic chemistry.

The film earned $288 million worldwide on a $85 million budget, launching a franchise that would include two sequels, though the series experienced declining commercial and critical returns with each subsequent installment.

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The Harry Potter series was adapted into 8 films over 10 years. All were critical and commercial successes, and nearly all are considered to be very close adaptations of the books. Where did they succeed where other book adaptations (Percy Jackson, Divergent, etc.) failed?
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