The Reel Rejects - INSURGENT (2015) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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Starting point is 00:01:04 Let's do it. I'm so excited. I really enjoyed that first one. Yeah, me too. I can't wait. Let's get into it. Oh, Neil Berger stayed on as an EP for the film. Oh, he did?

Starting point is 00:01:19 Yeah, didn't direct it. I mean, you could feel it definitely was directed a little bit different than the first film. Yes, definitely a different vibe. Yeah, by the way, if you are listening to us on Apple or Spotify, if you don't mind giving us a We would so appreciate it. It was some five stars, baby. I still really enjoyed this one. Like I was saying during the reaction,

Starting point is 00:01:37 I think it expanded the lore of just the universe itself. Just like also too, getting into Amity, the faction list, I liked going into that. I did like the themes of, again, like we mentioned earlier, of forgiveness and, you know, guilt. I thought they did a good job with that. I did feel one thing was a little bit, and maybe they'll go into it in the,

Starting point is 00:02:00 third film again not having seen it but i thought it was a little underdeveloped with um at tobias and his father and mother like they definitely got into it right but i feel like it again i know there's a third film but at least when it comes to this standalone film i thought it was a little underdeveloped and not resolved the whole forgiveness theme in terms of like a resolve to that storyline yeah but maybe that happens in the third film i don't know and if it does then i'm not going to have i guess as much of an issue, but as a stand-alone, I would have liked a little more of a, personally, a little more of a resolve. But overall, I still really enjoyed this film, did a lot of great stuff.

Starting point is 00:02:37 Just the whole mission of, like, unlocking this box and then the reveal of what the message in the box was, that was quite a twist. I mean, obviously, there were a couple other things in the film that were a little bit formulaic and generic in terms of being a little predictable. But, again, I was so invested in the world in the characters that it didn't bother me. but the twist with the whole message was so captivating personally for me and I was like, okay, I was not expecting that

Starting point is 00:03:03 but it was satisfying enough that it relieved me of some of the other predictable stuff that we did go through in terms of like Peter's character and a couple other things, but yeah, overall, I thought it was good and some great action sequences and other things, but what did you think of the film? Yeah, I think you have a good point in saying

Starting point is 00:03:20 that we were so wrapped up in the story that there's some things that just like let it slide it was funny to see Fours' dad at the end like he was fine but don't y'all remember he took a shot for him in the beginning of this film

Starting point is 00:03:35 and that was weird just to see him like there was no bullet this is a very small thing on my part this is just me being like observant but also even at the end of with Fours like bullet wound of him getting hurt

Starting point is 00:03:48 it just didn't seem very realistic like no one was feeling that but other than that those are just the two things right at the end of the film that I was like, that's weird. Why aren't we, why aren't we living in that a little bit? A little bit more. And also, why isn't dad hurt? Because he did take a bullet for his son. That's what his son saw. He either took a bullet or he got hit by the gun. I don't remember. It was at the very beginning. Maybe he just got

Starting point is 00:04:13 hit. It was one of the two. I don't remember. Yeah. And so he's still alive, got it. I think overall, with this film, I love the way it looked. Like the sequences that they did, especially with like the bodies falling apart and like with that building on fire flying through the sky I mean a lot of this just really really grabbed my attention with the way that it looked and I thought that was really awesome obviously Shilene and four have great great chemistry which I I love and adore but there are there were some things that we could it was it wasn't as exciting as the first one and I think that's because there were some twists and once there were the couple in there,

Starting point is 00:04:56 that was fun. And obviously the action sequence is awesome. Tons of fun once they get into the juice, like heck yeah. But other than that, I felt like even playing with Kate Winsler's character, the villain, it didn't seem as threatening as it did in the first film to me

Starting point is 00:05:14 as in the second film. It kind of felt a little played out like we have seen it before, even though I was still very much enjoying myself so don't get me wrong i still really like this movie i wasn't like oh my god i'm so bored like it wasn't a boring movie there's just some parts of it that didn't grab my attention as much as the first one and i think it may just be that um yeah a different director i don't think there was a totally different tone the character stuck to kind of who they who they were from from

Starting point is 00:05:45 the beginning um but i think in the way that maybe some of it was delivered it seemed a little like we were following the very atypical tropes of like, here's a sequel, this thing happens now, then this thing, then this thing. I don't know why I didn't feel that underlying intensity like I did with the first one. That's a fair point. And I think to your point, which I agree with, I mean, the first one, you had the whole mind control thing. And then they were, they literally annihilated a whole faction and abnegation or most of it. If not, you know, I'd say like a good 80, 85% if not more. But, and in this one, you had that interesting thing with those things that they shot in them.

Starting point is 00:06:28 And then it was like a sim injection or whatever. They showed it one time. And then it kind of like went away. Went away. I was like, wait, why didn't you go back? I understand there's that fear of being repetitive. Right. I would have like to, okay, you have this thing.

Starting point is 00:06:43 It's now we've got some stakes. Right. Let's see it live. Let's live through that for a second. Yeah. Yeah. you can use that as a, I mean, you already used it as a threatening manner to get Trist to come to you, but we can at least still have that as a, like you said, add some intensity because now it's like when it's completely gone away from like, wait, I don't feel it anymore. Like, yeah, they make a mention, oh, we got it out. I'm like, oh yeah, that's a thing now. It's, it was never looming or felt like I never felt it anymore because we got completely away from it. So I still enjoyed Kate Winslet's performance. And like you still feel, you know, from her. her that intensity, but just like the looming threat overall. Like it just, I agree with you. That wasn't

Starting point is 00:07:25 as a parent. Also, too, we were talking about expanding, you know, the lore from the factionless and Naomi Watts. I thought she was great as well. And we talked about Amity. I thought too, Candor. That was interesting as well. Just seeing like how they deal with, you know, you do the truth serum. And the whole trial is like very direct and quick. Yeah. You know, there's no lying obviously. and then obviously if you're holding it in you're going to feel pain, but it's very quick and seamless. Once you get the truth out, okay, courts adjourned

Starting point is 00:07:56 kind of thing, thank you for your candor. I thought, again, just expanding the lore of all the factions. I like that this film really got into the nitty gritty of all the factions. Yeah. I appreciate that. I agree. I think like, honestly, now thinking about it, I think it was really maybe the pacing for me. The first movie felt like the pacing

Starting point is 00:08:12 was like, we were off and we were going. The pacing was like, we're on it. And even though this movie, moved around a lot, like to the different factions and getting the truth out of her. A lot of it was like, I was like, oh, yeah, of course she has to confess that she is going to kill Will, how is she going to make it up to Christina and will four still love her? Will they go out of here together? And of course, Kate is still going to be after them.

Starting point is 00:08:36 I always forget her to, I just keep calling her Kate because she's good old Kate Winslet, Janine. That Janine is still going to be after them, going after them, kind of like, you know, in the old plot. But I think this one, even though it jumped around a lot, I feel like the pacing might have been just a little bit slower. I didn't feel as much on the edge of my seat as I did with

Starting point is 00:08:57 the first one. Although I really loved how it looked. All the acting, great job. I didn't, there was, in the first one, there was a couple emotional moments. And y'all, I'm on Prozac now, so I don't cry as easily, okay? Because long COVID effed a bitch up.

Starting point is 00:09:15 So, but in the first one, I think I would have cried, to be honest. And that one was a little bit more emotional. This one, not so much. We didn't really hit those points. There was one time I did, I believe I cried in this one. I forgot which scene it was, but there was one scene in this set of emotion that got me. I just can't remember which scene.

Starting point is 00:09:35 I've got meds flowing through my body. Not a lot of them, but they do just enough to where they're like, I don't think tears. Now I know which scene. It was the scene with, no, no, no, it was with Tris where she didn't want to let out that it was Will that she had... That she killed. That she killed in the Candor court. And she was in pain.

Starting point is 00:09:51 Yeah, and she was in pain, but also, too, because she wanted, she didn't want to tell Christina. Yeah. And it was, you know, and I understandably so. And again, he was under mind injection. And again, you know... Which I was kind of mad that she didn't say that in the candor. I know that for the sake of the movie, but like, I wanted her to say that. You mean just right away to Christina without the truth serum?

Starting point is 00:10:12 To say, like, he was under, he was going, even though she said he was going to, he was going to to shoot me first. Then he was going to shoot me. I shot him first. You would have thought too, like, because Christina was under the same-minded, you know, serum. It's like, hey, you guys were undermined serum. But I mean, again, Tris values human life and she felt guilty. So I can understand her apprehension. She was afraid she was going to lose her friend. And it's a human trait. I understand where she was coming from. I agree with you. But at the same point, too, I understand like her apprehension to want to say that and lose her friend. And I guess it was easier just to deflect for her. Yeah. And there's still a lot of unanswered stuff, you know, with the brother going

Starting point is 00:10:54 away. I mean, he's still alive. And just, I'm curious to see what happens in the actual real world. Because still for me, the question is, even though it took a divergent to open that box, Why was the mom hiding it when the message was just like we needed a divergent to bring through this to give us the truth? And now this experiment was all for the divergence. Okay. So now all of these factions were simply there to like suss out the divergence to get to that box to that system. But why? How does that help mankind and humanity?

Starting point is 00:11:37 That's still the question that I really want to answer that I assume, obviously, in the. next one, we will have that answered. I hope so. I'm just wondering why all of that just to get the divergence to open that box and why would mom be guarding that? Maybe because she knew that her daughter was a divergent. She didn't want to go back to real life. Right? So like if she knew that the daughter could open the box, I mean, I have like some ideas on it. But I would love to know why all of this for that, for just sussing out the divergence. Jack Nation, so today I want to share something with you that has been a wonderful addition to my health and fitness journey that I discovered during the holidays. And that is liquid IV's hydration multiplier. I'm down to my very last packet and I'm freaking out.

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Starting point is 00:15:39 That's a very good question. But yeah, overall, I still, I really enjoyed it. Yeah, me too. I probably like the first one a little bit more, though, overall. But again, just a good continuation of the story, expanding the lore. Like I said, my only issues were apparently gunshot wounds, at least for the main characters, were not as big of a deal. Yeah. Well, at least for four, which is fine.

Starting point is 00:16:02 I don't want anything to happen to him, but I think just from grounding it. Just the grounding reality, just like. Maybe just have his arm limping down a little or something. Maybe act like pain. And also, too, there was that one moment. Just, again, just in the slight negatives. I thought the scene was just directed weirdly where after Caleb had left. And then, you know, he said, don't feel guilty about Caleb leaving.

Starting point is 00:16:27 It's not your fault. I'm like, I couldn't tell from, you know, at watching Shilene Woodley her reaction from her facial reaction. I'm like, wait, does she feel guilty? I can't tell. It doesn't even look like she's concerned. that her brother's left. Right. Like, so I don't blame her.

Starting point is 00:16:42 I mean, obviously, you know, she's acting. She's got to read the script and do the facial. That's on her too. But it's kind of also the direct. It's a collaborative effort. So, yeah, I think between her and the director, like, that should have, they should have watched that in the dailies and been like, no, no, no, I need to, if I'm supposed to feel guilty, like, let's do this again.

Starting point is 00:17:01 Let's see it a little bit more. Yeah, that. And then, like I said, again, hopefully there's going to be a little bit more resolve in terms of the forgiveness or maybe, you know, maybe I'm just wrong about this in terms of a feeling underdeveloped in terms of the forgiveness with Tobias and his parents. Maybe he's just not going to forgive them. But since that was such a prevalent theme in the film, I thought we were going to go a little more towards that route. And I'm not saying that anybody should be forgiving towards their father for beating them or towards their mother for abandoning them. Those are very hard

Starting point is 00:17:32 things to forgive. I just thought that, again, that the film would get a little more into it than what we did. And we wouldn't have a third one without the mom obviously craving the power that the son called, even though he went to, you know, his mom's funeral at six years old. And he knew, like, you're searching for power. He could feel that. But also, I think with new directors, like you were talking about Shilene Woodley's performances in some stakes that we thought like, oh, that may seem like the reaction may be a little bit different. In my brain, I feel, and I don't know if this director is new or not, but because Shilene had already come from one movie and she already did a great, great job, that a lot of the times when a new director

Starting point is 00:18:17 steps into a set with an actor that is really well trusted, they've seen on set before, a lot of times they don't actually give a lot of direction, which they just kind of go, yeah, I think if If you trust it, we're good, which I don't always appreciate it. And I don't know if that's, obviously, I wasn't on set. I don't know if that's what happened. But I could see that maybe just going with like whatever she thought in that moment because she came from the first movie of just letting her ride with it. And because Neil wasn't the director like he was in the first one, we have some, not hiccups,

Starting point is 00:18:51 but just a different bit of a vibe. Yeah. And it lost a little bit of the reality in some parts. That was just a minor critique. Overall, she was still fantastic in the film. But in that moment, it kind of just took me out a little bit. I was like, wait, you're mentioning that she's feeling guilty? I'm like, I see no panic and concern that her brother just, I'm like, I don't feel it.

Starting point is 00:19:10 Yeah, that was like a small little thing in a large scheme of a really great film. That was still a lot of fun for me to watch. Again, I wasn't bored. I love the first one more, but this one still kept me hanging on because I love all the characters. They did a great job casting. they're all very believable, really, really great actors. I think if they hadn't cast who they cast in this, the movie would suffer a lot more

Starting point is 00:19:36 because everyone in this truly brings everything to the table for each character. And it's not like the dialogue is like, wow, insanely great. It is good. But like each actor really knows how to bring everything that's needed for this specific genre to the table. which is why I think that this series works so well

Starting point is 00:19:58 and why it went to three movies. So I'm still excited to watch a third one. I would love to see where the story goes, especially with Naomi now being kind of a villain and being in power. How's that going to play out with her son four? And also too, what they discover beyond the walls as well. Exactly.

Starting point is 00:20:16 Seeing that new world is going to be really, really exciting to see. So don't forget, do you got to like, comment, share. I got to read some trivia effects. Okay. Get your trivia ready. We'll read it. A few. We'll read some trivia while he's looking it up. Don't forget to. Yeah, do all those things. To like and share and comment. So the character of Caleb has a very unorthodox style of running in the movie, particularly near the start. This was a choice made by actor Ansel Elgort who stated that Shalene Woodley and Theo James are superheroes. Caleb is not. Caleb represents the intellectual side. The guy who isn't physical. And I wanted to make sure that was on. screen. I wanted to make sure that made sense. I missed the run. I'll need to like go back and look at a run. We were so focused on Jack Courtney's like T-1000 Tom Cruise's run. But yeah, I guess next time we, this was the first sequel, Kate Winslet was ever, has ever done. Okay. Oh, okay. Yeah, because apparently there wasn't a sequel to

Starting point is 00:21:13 Titanic, so that's correct. After cutting her hair for the role of Hazel Grace Lancaster for the fault in our stars, Shalene Woodley decided she did not want to wear a wig for insertion. In the book, Tris does cut her hair, but not as short as seen in the film. Oh. All right. Well, well, well. All right. I'll read two to three more.

Starting point is 00:21:34 Unlike the first film Insurgent is a very loose adaptation of Veronica Roth's novel, which contains a vastly different plot. Oh, a vastly different. Well, let us know in the comments how different it was. Yeah, let us know, because I'd be very interested to know. According to Miles Teller, 90% of his scenes, he is bleeding from Tris, beating him up. That's true. Well, yeah, because she knifed him on the cheek

Starting point is 00:22:02 and then also bleeding in the nose. Yeah. So, yeah, that's true. All right, I'll read two more, and that's it. Many fans criticize the fact that Tris was able to fire a gun confidently while in the novel is unable to hold a gun in her hands due to PTSD. She only fires it once throughout the movie

Starting point is 00:22:21 and doesn't even harm anyone with it either. Interesting. Because we did see that PTSD. That's a big switch for them to make from the book to the film. Yeah, because we did see that PTSD at the beginning when she was in Amity. We did. That's a big move to make. That really changes a character's outline, which is, okay, that's a ballsy move.

Starting point is 00:22:41 One last one. Okay. Several of the actors completed principal photography on other films while filming this. Miles Teller filmed Fantforstick. Jai Courtney film Terminator Genesis and Kate Winslet film Triple Nine. And it's funny I mentioned that he's doing the T-1,000, right? Yeah. Because that's what he was filming at the time. Yep, it makes a lot of sense.

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