The Divergent Series: Allegiant

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

A nightmarish landscape that’s meant to be frightening – or at least unsettling – ends up being hilariously cheesy instead.

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...

Woodley remains grimly committed, and Naomi Watts turns in a serious performance as our new, slightly more complicated villain, but the rest o...

Except in the highly visual or action sequences, Robert Schwentke’s direction has a peculiar quality, in which you can almost hear him y...

More like redundant.

Plodding stuff which accentuates the silliness of the original’s teen-mag personality-trope set-up, a narrative device that becomes more bori...

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...

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...

The special effects are among the more positive aspects of Allegiant, but those alone cannot rescue this highly flawed sequel.

The worn and weathered third installment in the four-part film adaptation of Veronica Roth’s postapocalyptic dystopian YA books.

Allegiant exemplifies what happens when a book or movie exists solely for the purposes of placating fans and maintaining a revenue stream.

The series continues to frustrate with its disingenuous argument for the importance of asserting individuality.

Let’s be Candor: This franchise is tumbling downhill at an alarming speed.

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

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...

This setup creates real anticipation about where the story might be headed, at least for those who haven’t read Roth’s books. Frustrati...

"Allegiant" is basically a thumb-twiddling place holder that relies on crashes, attacks and subpar effects rather than dramatic substance.

Allegiant manages to be profoundly confusing and almost entirely inert. The film’s strong action sequences can’t redeem a conflict...

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...

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...

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...

Because the series' plot reveal turns out to be more confusing than compelling, and because turning a novel into two films invariably leads to...

As always, the narrative mostly goes: fight, save Tris, Four and Tris kiss. Repeat.

Big but boring, expansive but cheap-looking, Allegiant spins in place, waiting for next year’s Ascendent to come along and offer resolution...

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

The finale here is about as exciting to watch as an office party on a paintball outing.

This first half of the artificially split two-part finally may diverge from Veronica Roth’s source material, but doesn’t necessarily so...

This series can’t be over soon enough.

With this hapless entry, even fans of the series will have their allegiance tested.

Instead of bringing much-needed clarity, Allegiant piles on yet more bamboozling mythology to flummox and confound.

After about 30 minutes of agreeably junky sci-fi that often exceeds the energy levels of its predecessors, the inevitable happens: Allegi...

The third and most useless chapter of the continuing sci-fi bloatfest called The Divergent Series.

Like the earlier Divergent films, Allegiant is studded with enticing science-fiction ideas, but it keeps such a poker-straight face while pres...

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...

Allegiant aches to be a thought-provoking, moving allegory of the current world. Instead, it’s an unwieldy two hours too unintentionally...

By this point, none of the pieces fits and absolutely nothing makes any sense.

If you think the name is inelegant, wait until you see the movie.

egregiously padded piffle

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.

Creatively speaking, if not financially, the Divergent series is less a franchise than a quagmire, an unwinnable war that nonetheless must be...

This penultimate installment in the dour dystopian franchise offers stronger visual effects and more thought-provoking biopunk notions about geneti...

Divergent feels like a hasty idea scribbled on construction paper, crumpled into a ball, and ditched in a mud puddle. Even it can&rs...

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...

A story that kicked off two years ago at a reasonable gallop has now slowed to barely a limp.