The Destiny - Insurgent

After attacking the Ken and their leader Jeanine (Kate Winslet), Tris (Shailene Woodley), Four (Theo James), Peter (Miles Teller) and Caleb (Ansel Elgort) are on the run from the Ferox, who are hunting them down under the leadership of Eric (Jay Courtney). They find shelter with the Amite, but their safety here is not guaranteed for long. Jeanine's henchmen quickly track them down here and only with a lot of luck can the four of them escape on a train towards the city. Here they encounter what appears to be a well-organized group of factionless, led by Four's deadbeat mother Evelyn (Naomi Watts). She asks her son and Tris to go to the Candor and get the Ferox who are there to join in the fight against Jeanine. But she has since found an item that could help her crush any uprising and consolidate her power. But to unlock the secret of this item, she needs the help of a particularly powerful Divergent - Tris! Destiny - Insurgent picks up almost seamlessly from the events of the first part. Although there are some cleverly placed flashbacks and allusions to the past events and also the system of factions is explained again in the approach, viewers who have not seen the first film or are not familiar with the successful book template by Veronica Roth, could quickly lose the overview. That's because director Robert Schwentke, who has taken over the baton from Neil Burger, pushes the story along at a relatively fast pace, rarely dwelling on the background of the story and its characters. At some points, the film could be accused of being superficial as a result. But this impression only arises if you see it as a completely independent story - and this is not the case with the second part of the four-film series. As a sequel, The Destiny - Insurgent is absolutely successful. The story is consistently continued and varies not only, as the second book and film of the Panem series is often accused, the events from the first part. There are some small surprises and very good moments of suspense, but also a lot of pathos and inconsistencies. Why the perfectly trained Ferox don't manage to hit fugitives with their rapid fire weapons is just as much a mystery as the fact that in this dystopian world there seems to be unlimited access to pretty make-up or the fact that Tris can give herself the perfect short hairstyle in the dark. Besides such criticisms, which the target audience will only be marginally bothered by anyway, the film is really good as what it wants to be. The actors are utterly convincing when measured against the often rather simple-minded dialogue they have to spout. And the visuals are extremely atmospheric in many scenes and beyond reproach in terms of trickery. Especially the mixture of post-apocalyptic destruction and futuristic technology makes the special charm of these films. The most interesting character of the story is also in the second part again Peter, embodied by Miles Teller, with whom it is not so easy to see whether he now belongs to the good guys, or to the bad guys, while this assignment is quite clear with Tris, Four or Jeanine. More characters that are similarly ambiguous or complex would have certainly done the story some good and given it an additional depth that the really interesting concept of the factions would have deserved. But even if the film can't come up with that, The Destiny - Insurgent has become a really thrilling, involving and visually fascinating adventure, especially for fans of the books (and the first film), which now already makes great desire for the first part of the finale, which will be released in theaters next spring. Worth seeing!

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