Divergent by Veronica Roth

[Drunk Monk]

Well, the sequel was a little better. The 3D was really robust and the effects were amusing. They hide out in the Amity faction, which is funny because that's the hippie commune that grows all the food, and I'm amused by dystopian hippie depictions. It's all still very derivative - there was this scene that T dubbed the "Harry Potter moment" - the good guys (Hogwarts/factionless) are threatened by the villain (Voldemort/Jeanine) to give up the chosen one (Harry/Tris) or innocent will die. What I enjoyed about this was that there was a lot of PTSD dream sequences, and of course, the sims, which were all somewhat hallucinogenic and played with what was real and was was delusion. The filmmakers constantly tried to trick the audience into believing a dream/sim was real; I was never fooled but I was entertained. The kid from Whiplash was in it. He was a character in the first film but he didn't pop out at me until this one. He was good. The fight choreography continues to be mediocre, but not as glaringly so as in the first film. They have cool guns but can't hit anything with time (villains can't hit them running across an open field). The only time they can hit their targets are the execution-style shootings, which are surprisingly brutal - not acts of mercy from the good guys to the prone villain, and an innocent child gets offed so. You don't really need to see the first one to get this one, especially if you've seen Hunger Games or Harry Potter. I wouldn't really recommend it though.

T says book 3 gets stupid and book 4 gets super stupid because it retells books 1-3 from the guy's perspective instead of Tris'.

I think the next book is called Detergent