Following The Hunger Games was always going to be tough for the Divergent series, another young adult novel series set in a dystopian world.
The original Divergent film polarised filmgoers but, despite being ponderous on the set-up and over-long, it delivered an interesting premise, slick visuals and solid casting. The hope was that with the series established there would be more action and less talk in the second instalment; unfortunately, new series director Robert Schwentke (The Time Traveler's Wife), has delivered more of the same.
If The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner and Divergence are starting to blend in your mind, a quick refresh may be required. Divergence is a fantasy series about a group of people who survived a war and live behind a protective wall in a ruined Chicago.
They live an ordered life, separated into five factions representing their virtues, but cracks in this system have appeared and there's been an uprising thanks to Tris (Woodley), a divergent who fits into more than one faction.
Insurgent kicks off where Divergent left off, with Tris on the run from the Erudite faction's cold and heartless leader Jeanine, played brilliantly by Winslet.
