THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT [2016]

The third (and last theatrical) film in the Divergent series, Allegiant, is the first part of the final book in the YA novel trilogy by Veronica Roth and coincidentally the final outing for director Robert Schwentke.
Get all that?  Do you care?  No?  Me neither.
Pretty young adults with expensive hair products fight against the heavy-handed government authority in dystop--...I smell catshit.
While the second film left off with some interesting character twists that would have made for some great conflicts, it's all quickly resolved in a matter of minutes and we're back to square one.  There's absolutely no character progression making the simple story all the more boring.  With the exception of few mildly exciting action sequences, the film is drawn-out, horribly paced and piled over on fancy camera-work over a large abundance of bad CGI.
The final film is in talks for a TV movie because of a poor box office performance but word-of-mouth is nobody cares anymore.

1 gas leak out of 5

Punisher: War Zone (2008)

It’s not polite to laugh when a chair leg punches through some poor sap’s face, but I couldn't help myself. The level of violence in Marvel’s third attempt at a Punisher story is ridiculous. Unfortunately, once the laughs faded, after about ten minutes, all that was left was video game brutality, cop clichés, villain clichés, vigilante clichés, daylight tragedy and night shoots with too much backlit steam.

1 more Marvel reboot for the shit-heap out of 5

The Book of Eli (2010)

It’s post-apocalyptic. It’s overtly religious. It’s bullshit nonsense.

Strip away the religious skin and underneath is a plot so full of holes even Jesus would laugh, and he’s the King of contradictions.

Unsure if it wants to be an action movie or a thinking movie, it fails at both.

1 bald kitty cat out of 5