Antoneo-Johnson

I was not really sure what to expect when I went to see this movie and who was staring in it other than Cruise and Blunt. I was quite surprised to see Paxton and whole list of British and Southern Irish faces on the screen.

The story was well scripted and constructed. The main drive of the movie is to win the war everything else is secondary. This is done at a fast past, so you will need to remain focused to keep up. This is not a boy meets girl movie but a man with a gun on a mission to win a war by all means where necessary.

The repeat were cleverly done so as not to bore you. It would have been nice to see more of Blunt and Paxton in the movie but this did not distract from the plot themselves.

The special effect were first rate, well grounded and realistic without being mind blowing or over spectacular.

There is a lot of killing in the movie but the effects are more to the level of the "Terminator" rather than "Saving Private Ryan".

There are some humorous and romantic bits in the movie but this is a gun tooting fast paced action packed movie.

This was a well constructed movie with some very good action scenes there to enhance the story rather than to make the story.

The acting is of top quality. You forget that you are watching some of the best actors applying their trade McKellen, McAvoy, Fassbender, Stewart, Jackman, Lawrence, Berry, etc.

All Marvel movies should be directed by either Singer, Webb or Whedon. Singer makes the recent productions of the Thor franchise, Iron-Man 2 & 3 look amateurish.

There were some bits in the X-men movie that did not look quite right and this is true of all the X-men movie, is the age of the characters. I know Wolverine ages very slowly but does that apply to all mutant as Magneto, Professor X and some of the other characters should be a bit older or look older.

Some of the technology looked too advanced and way ahead of Stark industry for the periods.

These are minor point to what was a very entertaining and enjoyable movie.

Although the acting was good from Winslet and the other two main leads the film suffered from poor direction and made very little sense.

What is so special about having Divergent? After two hour of the movie I was asking myself what is so special about Divergent? How do they control all their emotions? How did they decide on the fractions what where the reasons for their alliances? How are they governed and policed, etc.

The film was very padded out into a two hour movie with the inclusion some very tame fight scene with "Tris" or the other trainees. This movie could have been edited down to 90 minutes would have been fine.

The film was not thought provoking nor did it entertain. The ending was too predictable and tame.

This is really a poor mans Hunger Game at best