--- title: Insurgent Review: Shailene Woodley Has Never Been Less Urgent description: In Insurgent, Shailene Woodley is the one constant of The Divergent Series, but it's not enough canonical: https://time.com/3748737/insurgent-movie-review/ author: Richard Corliss article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-18T16:32:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:59:39.490Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: REVIEW: There's Nothing Urgent About "Insurgent" og:description: Shailene Woodley is the one shining constant og:url: https://time.com/3748737/insurgent-movie-review/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7c1f560f5d669d92/69878428524fc04843decf50/insurgent.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 67540.cr2 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: REVIEW: There's Nothing Urgent About "Insurgent" twitter:description: Shailene Woodley is the one shining constant twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7c1f560f5d669d92/69878428524fc04843decf50/insurgent.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # REVIEW: There's Nothing Urgent About _Insurgent_ > Sponsored content. 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With Premiere Props Hollywood Auction Extravaganza XIII set to sell some impressive Hollywood memorabilia, TIME looks back on how much some of the most iconic movie props have fetched._ by [Richard Corliss](https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/) ## Richard Corliss Mar 18, 2015 4:32 PM UTC  Theo James, Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley star in Insurgent Theo James, Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley star in InsurgentAndrew Cooper—Lionsgate by [Richard Corliss](https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/) ## Richard Corliss Mar 18, 2015 4:32 PM UTC We’re back in the woods with the kids. After three [_Hunger Games_](http://time.com/3581905/hunger-games-mockingjay-movie-review/) movies, plus a bunch of [_Twilight_](http://entertainment.time.com/2012/11/15/it-was-the-best-of-the-worst-of-times-breaking-dawn-part-2/) forestry escapades, one [_Maze Runner_](http://time.com/3394382/the-maze-runner-movie-review/) (with more to come) and that dawdling sylvan interlude in [_Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1_](http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2032137,00.html), the yawning YA genre packs its young audiences off to another Teen Boot Camp. Tris Prior, the flinty heroine played by Shailene Woodley, goes rural in _Insurgent_, the second episode in the inevitable four-part trilogy now called _The Divergent Series_. (Four-part because no matter how fashions change in semi-blockbuster franchises, the one unyielding Hollywood principle is greed.) Given the modest surprise of last year’s _Divergent_ — who’d have guessed that the nth YA retread could be so … O.K.? — _Insurgent_ has two hurdles to scale: building on the promise of the first film and permanently anointing Woodley as the industry’s ferocious deadpan goddess. The picture comes up short in both categories. It’s wandering, not urgent, while indicating that all-Shailene-all-the-time can be too much of a pretty good thing. _Divergent_, directed by Neil Burger, displayed an admirable seriousness and some grim verve in laying out the boundaries of novelist Veronica Roth’s dystopia — six segregated but ostensibly harmonious regions defined by their inhabitants’ skills. Latecomers can apply the mnemonic device FACADE: Factionless for the outsiders, Amity for the famers, Candor for the truthsayers, Abnegation for the selfless, Dauntless for the daring and Erudite for the smarties. The first film had the benefit of being new — newish, given the familiarity of movies about kids getting hazed by ruthless adults — in picturing Tris’ emergence through those worlds into her own unique entity. She is not just a Divergent, the blending of several factions, but The Divergent. Neo from _The Matrix_. The Redeemer. The One. In pop-culture terms, Michael Jackson at his “Billie Jean” apogee. In liberal politics, sort of Obama 2008. _Insurgent_, directed by Robert Schwentke, has Tris grappling with her superstar status and battling the powerful forces who might well be rid of her — all women in Roth’s full-fledged matriarchy. (Has any modern or ancient trilogy been so bereft of father figures?) Among the adversaries and potential allies are the queens of three other realms: Erudite’s Jeanine (Kate Winslet), Amity’s Johanna (Octavia Spencer) and Evelyn (Naomi Watts), rebel warrior of the Factionless. In her own generation, Tris also has to gauge the shifting loyalties of her brother Caleb (Ansel Elgort), her Candor pal Christina (Zoe Kravitz) and the snide mercurial Peter (Miles Teller), while relying on her studly protector Four (Theo James). Having to arch up with all these characters propels Tris on a grand tour of her old haunts; with its repeat itinerary, _Insurgent_ is less a sequel than a remake. The movie has an ordinary middle-chapter scenario, less _The Empire Strikes Back_ than _Attack of the Clones_. It does provide a few high-tech flourishes. The trio of new screenwriters — first-timer Brian Duffield, action specialist Mark Bomback _(Live Free or Die Hard, Unstoppable)_ and designated Ron Howard scripture Akiva Goldsman _(A Beautiful Mind, Cinderella Man, The Da Vinci Code)_ — has junked reams of plot from Roth’s second novel and added a magic box, a gift from the elders that will suss out the one true Divergent and, I don’t know, either save or ruin the land. (There’s also a scene in which, if I correctly read my Wikipedia synopsis of the book, one of the major characters is given a different murderer.) Strapped into a _Clockwork Orange_ apparatus with some [Christian Grey leather](http://time.com/3706587/fifty-shades-of-grey-movie-review/), Tris endures a bunch of simulations that vault her across the Chicago skyline and into netherspace. These are moderately cool, but they simply underline the paucity of nuance and suspense in the _people_ parts of the movie. Winslet and Watts, though never more gorgeous or glowering, mostly just strike attitudes, as if referencing Madonna’s old “Vogue” video. The younger actors have even less luck. James, who made for a solid, stolid prince consort in the first film, turns whiny here. The only connection with more sizzle than fizzle is the enmity between Tris and Jeanine’s henchman and all-time rotter Eric (Jai Courtney). During the ample downtime watching _Insurgent,_ you can amuse yourself by gleefully imagining dreadful ways to kill off Eric. In the middling _Divergent_ or the water-treading _Insurgent_, through the series’ thickets and longueurs, the one shining constant has been Woodley, the 23-year-old graduate from indie fare _(The Spectacular Now,_ [_White Bird in a Blizzard_](http://time.com/3530382/review-white-bird-in-a-blizzard-snow-job-for-shailene-woodley/)_, The Fault in Our Stars)_ to franchise savior. Without a touch of movie glamour, she wowed critics and forged identities with her young fans through her quiet intensity. I confess I’ve been guilty of committing such rhapsodies, writing of [Woodley, as Hazel in _The Fault in Our Stars_](http://time.com/2822847/the-fault-in-our-stars-movie-review/), that she: --- > “” --- But Schwentke seems to think that the way to bring epic heft to this 3-D franchise is to wallpaper the whole movie with intimate images of his young star. Over and over, her visage fills the giant IMAX screen like a sign painter’s view of a Hollywood Boulevard billboard during a two-hour traffic jam. One face, even Woodley’s, can endure only so much rapt attention. So for the last two chapters in the series, everyone is hereby ordered to step back a few paces. 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