Insurgent

"Defy reality."

2015 1h 59m EN

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6.4

MID

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29%

ROTTEN

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METACRITIC

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6.2

IMDB

★6.4TMDB · 10,628🥫29%Rotten Tomatoes●42Metacritic★6.2IMDB · 269,895

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Synopsis

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Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart.

“Defy reality.”

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Cast

Shailene Woodley
Beatrice 'Tris' Prior
Theo James
Tobias 'Four' Eaton
Miles Teller
Peter Hayes
Kate Winslet
Jeanine Matthews
Ansel Elgort
Caleb Prior
Zoë Kravitz
Christina
Jai Courtney
Eric Coulter
Ray Stevenson
Marcus Eaton

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Robert Schwentke
Writers: Robert Consing, Amy Lynn Umezu, Anthony Winn
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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$110M budget — tentpole studio territory.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released 11 years ago.

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3 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Divergent Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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4 / 8

CAST

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385+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Robert Schwentke, shot by Florian Ballhaus. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Joseph Trapanese. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Nancy Richardson shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Shailene Woodley and Theo James and Miles Teller carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Robert Schwentke directs. Florian Ballhaus behind the camera. Joseph Trapanese scores. Nancy Richardson cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1$110M budget — tentpole studio territory.
2Released 11 years ago.
3Part of the "Divergent Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4385+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
5Directed by Robert Schwentke, shot by Florian Ballhaus. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Joseph Trapanese. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Nancy Richardson shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Shailene Woodley and Theo James and Miles Teller carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "Defy reality.".
10IMDB entry: tt2908446 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
1110,628 TMDB user ratings logged — serious cultural footprint.
12Classified under 16 themes, including "rebellion", "based on novel or book", "revolution", "dystopia".
13Released under 16 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Florian Ballhaus
Original score: Joseph Trapanese
Editing: Nancy Richardson
Production design: Alec Hammond
Costume design: Louise Mingenbach
Makeup / hair: Lumas Hamilton Jr.
VFX supervisor: Ged Wright
Sound: Christian P. Minkler
Stunt coordinator: Darrin Prescott
Runtime: 119 min · 1h 59m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $110,000,000
Box office: $297,002,527
Return: 270% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Insurgent (2015)
Rotten Tomatoes: 29% 🥫 Rotten
Metacritic: 42/100
IMDB rating: 6.2/10 · 269,895 votes
MPAA: PG-13

Awards

4 wins & 18 nominations total

Part of

Divergent Collection

A series of dystopian science fiction action films based on the Divergent novels by the American author Veronica Roth. Set in a dystopian and post-apocalyptic Chicago where people are divided into distinct factions based on human virtues. Beatrice Prior (Tris) is warned that she is Divergent and thus will never fit into any one of the factions. She along with Tobias Eaton (Four) soon learn that a sinister plot is brewing in the seemingly perfect society.

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Dark Jedi2015-08-28
As I did in my review of the first instalment, in this movie series I should probably point out that I have not read the books. Some people claim that this movie do not follow the books but, obviously, I cannot comment on that. So my review is based on the movie and the movie alone. I have to confess that I mostly watched this movie because I did watch the first instalment and felt obliged to see where the story went. This movie have quite a few fairly cool special effects, especially the ones when Tris is in the virtual reality world trying to open the cube with the message to the inhabitants in the closed up city. Unfortunately this pretty much sums up the good parts of the movie. As with Divergent I found this movie to be fairly mediocre. One reviewer said that this was a movie dumbed down for the teenage audience. Unfortunately I feel that he was right. Also unfortunately I think many teenagers are a lot smarter than Hollywood believe they are. The plot is, well, mediocre. The acting is fairly meh. The main character, Tris, really lacks any form of charisma and spends most of the movie going around in some state of melancholy feeling sorry for herself and everything that happens around her. Apart from Four most of the people were behaving immaturely, cluelessly, froze up or panicked whenever something nasty happened and switched allegiances back and forth like you changed shirts. When Tris finally opened the cube I was expecting something cool and unexpected. What we got was a rather dull message about the city and its “purpose”. I complained in my review of divergent that we got absolutely no background information as to how the people had ended up in this ridiculous situation with a closed city and these factions that I still do not understand what they were supposed to solve. The message was supposed to explain this but it explained absolutely nothing except that the divergents were some kind of purpose or solution. The ending? Well again this is a book series so it is not surprising that it ends in somewhat of a cliffhanger but it was really a cheap ending, one that you would expect from a TV series episode. So I cannot say that I liked the movie very much. The virtual reality special effects scenes were fairly cool but that was about it.
Andres Gomez2016-04-09
★ 4/10
Briefing; this movie is just bad. The first was not good either but this one continues the path open by the first. The special effects are quite noticeably rendered by computers and the actors are uncharismatic, other than that, the plot is just bad. Another movie with quasi-teenager lead roles in a dystopic future in which stupidity is spread all along man-kind. We just witness the struggle of our heroine with her self-imposed guilt with stupid enemies that let her survive at every moment so she can become the messiah she is meant to be. I think the only positive part I can get from this movie is the preeminence of strong and important female characters. Other than that, just skip it.
Reno2016-07-14
★ 6/10
The mystery box and the power hungry leaders! This is not a bad sequel, I quite enjoyed it, but I think I liked 'Divergent' better. The story continued a very short after where it ended in the first. In this part, it was all about power hungry where many try to get that top post. On the other side, there will be an attempt to open a mystery box that found which might reveal some important detail about them. Looked like a very good storyline, unpredictable stuffs, but not utilised to its full potential. Though the actors were good, especially Shailene was sexy in her short hairs. I think she came straight out of 'The Fault in Our Stars' to take up this role where her brother in this film was a boyfriend in that. Visually as well very captivating with those great graphics and it is first digital 3D film in the series. It has numerous small twists, especially during decrypting the mystery box. So I felt the middle parts were the best part of the film. I thought this film would take place outside the wall, but a new story was developed and still kept the mystery about the rest of the world. I don't know the book, but that's my disappointment. I hope the next film in the series would go beyond the wall and explore some new things. So I'm looking forward for the 'Allegiant'. 6/10