Divergent feels like a hasty idea scribbled on construction paper, crumpled into a ball, and ditched in a mud puddle. Even it can&rs...
Boston Globe March 17, 2016 This setup creates real anticipation about where the story might be headed, at least for those who haven’t read Roth’s books. Frustrati...
Toronto Sun March 17, 2016 As always, the narrative mostly goes: fight, save Tris, Four and Tris kiss. Repeat.
Let’s be Candor: This franchise is tumbling downhill at an alarming speed.
Allegiant manages to be profoundly confusing and almost entirely inert. The film’s strong action sequences can’t redeem a conflict...
Creatively speaking, if not financially, the Divergent series is less a franchise than a quagmire, an unwinnable war that nonetheless must be...
New York Times March 17, 2016 A story that kicked off two years ago at a reasonable gallop has now slowed to barely a limp.
It’s not Allegiant so much as Ambivalent, Indulgent and even a little Feculent.
If this movie had a faction, it would be: placeholder until the last chapter.
If you think the name is inelegant, wait until you see the movie.
Instead of bringing much-needed clarity, Allegiant piles on yet more bamboozling mythology to flummox and confound.
Except in the highly visual or action sequences, Robert Schwentke’s direction has a peculiar quality, in which you can almost hear him y...
Toronto Star March 17, 2016 The third and most useless chapter of the continuing sci-fi bloatfest called The Divergent Series.
Irish Times March 10, 2016 The series continues to frustrate with its disingenuous argument for the importance of asserting individuality.
Because the series' plot reveal turns out to be more confusing than compelling, and because turning a novel into two films invariably leads to...
The second to last entry in what is a so-so franchise, "The Divergent Series: Allegiant" is squirrelly, chasing from one big concept to anothe...
The Guardian March 13, 2016 Plodding stuff which accentuates the silliness of the original’s teen-mag personality-trope set-up, a narrative device that becomes more bori...
Independent March 10, 2016 The finale here is about as exciting to watch as an office party on a paintball outing.
Globe and Mail March 18, 2016 The movie desperately wants a sleek and goth-inspired aesthetic in the spirit of Rick Owens. What it ends up with is more of an unfortunate An...
Rolling Stone March 18, 2016 egregiously padded piffle
The special effects are among the more positive aspects of Allegiant, but those alone cannot rescue this highly flawed sequel.
The Guardian March 10, 2016 Big but boring, expansive but cheap-looking, Allegiant spins in place, waiting for next year’s Ascendent to come along and offer resolution...
After about 30 minutes of agreeably junky sci-fi that often exceeds the energy levels of its predecessors, the inevitable happens: Allegi...
This series can’t be over soon enough.
The series has seen a steady decline from the surprisingly palatable opener, Divergent, with its political metaphors so smoothly handled. It b...
There’s a lot of standing and talking, a lot of clothes-wearing (and even some doffing), and a lot of very loving set design. What...
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.
New York Post April 8, 2016 By this point, none of the pieces fits and absolutely nothing makes any sense.
Allegiant exemplifies what happens when a book or movie exists solely for the purposes of placating fans and maintaining a revenue stream.
This first half of the artificially split two-part finally may diverge from Veronica Roth’s source material, but doesn’t necessarily so...
Village Voice March 18, 2016 These movies were never going to transform cinema, but watching Allegiant, it’s hard not to feel as if someone has pulled the rug out from un...
The worn and weathered third installment in the four-part film adaptation of Veronica Roth’s postapocalyptic dystopian YA books.
After Allegiant, some moviegoers may decide their work with this franchise is done here.
Detroit News March 18, 2016 With this hapless entry, even fans of the series will have their allegiance tested.
Times (UK) March 10, 2016 Increasingly ambitious and unashamedly entertaining.
A nightmarish landscape that’s meant to be frightening – or at least unsettling – ends up being hilariously cheesy instead.
Chicago Tribune March 17, 2016 It’s a pretty dull picture, I must say, because it’s my duty to say it. And it’s a pretty dull picture, I must say, bec...
Three films into the ongoing Divergent series, one would hope we’d moved beyond laying plates and folding napkins to get to something more su...
Like the earlier Divergent films, Allegiant is studded with enticing science-fiction ideas, but it keeps such a poker-straight face while pres...
Brings back the same cast of characters to do more or less exactly what they did in the previous films, only this time in sets with more sci-fi glo...
RogerEbert.com March 17, 2016 "Allegiant" is basically a thumb-twiddling place holder that relies on crashes, attacks and subpar effects rather than dramatic substance.
Allegiant aches to be a thought-provoking, moving allegory of the current world. Instead, it’s an unwieldy two hours too unintentionally...
The Australian April 15, 2016 There are a couple of well-shot, exciting action scenes… but the overall effect is patchy in terms of plot and character relationships and unf...
MovieFreak.com August 11, 2016 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...
Woodley remains grimly committed, and Naomi Watts turns in a serious performance as our new, slightly more complicated villain, but the rest o...
Chicago Reader March 17, 2016 This penultimate installment in the dour dystopian franchise offers stronger visual effects and more thought-provoking biopunk notions about geneti...
