Divergent (Neil Burger 2014)

and so anyway it turns out the best thing about Divergent (2014) is not its role in the mysterious rise of Jai Courtney, easily the very worst of all the very bad actors in the much-loved Spartacus, nor is it the way that it makes you want to watch the much-loved and incredibly silly Equilibrium (Wimmer 2002) again, but the bold formal experiment it conducts by taking the training montage sequence as the basis for its narrative structure but then including two hours of all the tedious stuff you would normally cut out…