Review of Allegiant

After the message the people of Chicago receive from the Outside at the end of Insurgent, Tris and Four gather together a group of people to travel beyond the Wall to find out what's really going on and to see if the people Out There can help set them free. After a daring escape, they find a group of people who assure them that they want to help them with their rebellion. But there's something suss going on not only in their new-found allies but back in Chicago and Four isn't sure that their new buddies are all that trustworthy, causing a rift between Tris and him. Are they really trustworthy? What exactly are their new-buddies actual plans for them? And will they be able to set the world free? Unfortunately, almost none of these questions are answered - because of this movie's fatal flaw: they tried to copy other popular movies and divide the finale into two movies instead of keeping it as one. Now, that may work for stuff like The Hunger Games and Infinity War and Endgame, but it doesn't work here, and another problem being, this trilogy started being released around a similar time to The Hunger Games, which caused it to suffer. Or more specifically, for the last movie to suffer. Plus, the Divergent trilogy wasn't the most original to begin with. It follows along similar storylines that other dystopian movies follow, which also didn't help. But, it does manage to provide an interesting enough story to stand on it's one - until it decided to try and copy The Hunger Games and divide the finale into two. That was it's biggest mistake. And as a result, we will never find out what was coming next (as you can't just go read the book as the movies are different enough to them that you can't just go read them and go 'oh, I know what's going to happen next'). If Allegiant had simply done the final chapter all in one movie, then it wouldn't have mattered if it had still flopped as at least we'd all know what would happen next. Another flaw in this is the fact that, while providing some different stuff and enough to keep us interested and to warrant a '10', "Allegiant" ultimately follows the same pattern that all the other dystopian trilogies I've watched and read follow (with the notable exception of the Maze Runner book trilogy). Other than that, it boasts great visuals, interesting concepts and themes, great acting, and some questions that, while the story may or may not be all that much, still needed to be answered.