The Divergent Series: Allegiant
Summit Entertainment | Release Date: March 18, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
58
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerMar 16, 2016
Maybe that call will be answered next time with enough incremental improvements to finally notch a good Divergent movie, a possibility Allegiant raises repeatedly and frustratingly. Ultimately, though, this movie isn’t just adhering to a formula; it’s carefully following a recipe designed to offset any good ingredients that get mixed in there by mistake. Read full review
56
TheWrapBen CrollMar 7, 2016
“Allegiant” ends up feeling like a mid-season climax to serialized TV drama. The pieces are in play, the wheels in motion. Stay tuned, loyal viewers, and you’ll get your answers next year. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesBill ZweckerMar 18, 2016
The special effects are among the more positive aspects of “Allegiant,” but those alone cannot rescue this highly flawed sequel. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliMar 18, 2016
Allegiant tries to cram too little story into too much time. This results in dead spots and uneven pacing. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaMar 18, 2016
Director Robert Schwentke and his writing team do their best to move things along. Actually, who knows if it's their best? Maybe they're suffering from Divergent fatigue along with the rest of us. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyAriana BacleMar 18, 2016
Allegiant aches to be a thought-provoking, moving allegory of the current world. Instead, it’s an unwieldy two hours too unintentionally silly to validate how seriously it takes itself. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranMar 17, 2016
Because the series' plot reveal turns out to be more confusing than compelling, and because turning a novel into two films invariably leads to inflated productions, only the most devoted fans of the book will pledge allegiance to what's on the screen. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMar 17, 2016
Combines the usual dumb ideas with one good one. And not just good, but impressive, in that it makes sense of much of what went before. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTom RussoMar 17, 2016
This doesn’t even feel much like Tris’s story anymore, just generically overdigitized combat. The main thing she’s diverging from at this point is the tone that hooked us in the first place. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldConnie OgleMar 17, 2016
The film moves jerkily, in fits and starts, squandering its promising setup and bogging down in explanation. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzMar 17, 2016
Let's just call "Allegiant" what it is: A way for the studio to make money and bring you back next year for the real finale. See you then. Maybe. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsStephen Whitty Mar 17, 2016
The only thing that's revolting is how dull the series has gotten. Read full review
40
Total FilmKate Stables Mar 16, 2016
This over-extended teen dystopia is treading water, coming up short on its trademark punchy plotting, teen self-discovery and the wonderful Woodley. Read full review
40
The GuardianHenry BarnesMar 15, 2016
Big but boring, expansive but cheap-looking, Allegiant spins in place, waiting for next year’s Ascendent to come along and offer resolution. In all candour: you can do without it. Read full review
40
The TelegraphRobbie CollinMar 8, 2016
Like the earlier Divergent films, Allegiant is studded with enticing science-fiction ideas, but it keeps such a poker-straight face while presenting them, you often can’t help but crack up. Read full review
40
EmpireJames DyerMar 8, 2016
Instead of bringing much-needed clarity, Allegiant piles on yet more bamboozling mythology to flummox and confound. Read full review
40
Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganMar 8, 2016
Long, shiny, and treading a lot of water. Read full review
40
Time Out LondonTom HuddlestonMar 7, 2016
It all leads to a climax so staggeringly lazy and glib that you honestly expect Woodley just to turn to the camera in the final scene, shrug her shoulders and walk off. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerMar 6, 2016
For a film that takes great pride in its heroine's nonconformism, pretty much everything in Allegiant feels conventional. Read full review
40
VarietyPeter DebrugeMar 6, 2016
Although “Allegiant” does recapture the original film’s sense of constantly discovering and adapting to fresh information, audiences no longer identify with anyone in particular. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comSusan WloszczynaMar 17, 2016
As tedious as much of this sounds, an odd thing happened around “Allegiant’s” midway point. The fairly packed audience started vocally reacting “Rocky Horror”-style to some of the more overtly melodramatic turns with “oohs," “ahhs” and even laughter. Read full review
38
The Seattle TimesSoren AndersenMar 17, 2016
All of it feels warmed over, reprocessed … and, yes, confused. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsMar 16, 2016
It's a pretty dull picture, I must say, because it's my duty to say it. And it's a pretty dull picture, I must say, because something about its particular grade of dullness may cause memory loss. Read full review
37
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanMar 17, 2016
Everything is needlessly tangled and bewildering. Read full review
33
The Film StageMichael SnydelMar 18, 2016
Above all of the tiresome, poorly constructed mythology, nonexistent stakes, and presentation of subtext as text, Allegiant’s greatest sin is its total contempt for its viewers. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesMar 23, 2016
Three films into the ongoing Divergent series, one would hope we’d moved beyond laying plates and folding napkins to get to something more substantial. Yet Allegiant barely makes it to the appetizer course. Read full review
30
Village VoiceBilge EbiriMar 21, 2016
The actors still give it their all in Allegiant, but there's only so much they can do with such a clunky, verbose script. And on the rare occasion that the film actually quiets its characters down and delivers something resembling action, it's woefully inert. Read full review
30
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisMar 17, 2016
A story that kicked off two years ago at a reasonable gallop has now slowed to barely a limp. Read full review
25
Rolling StonePeter TraversMar 18, 2016
If only their stuff had a spark of life it might be forgivable, but Allegiant plods along like a franchise on its last legs. Who remembers where we left off last time in Insurgent? My point exactly — no one. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Julia CooperMar 18, 2016
Try as I might, I cannnot activate your interest in this bloated excuse for a movie. Read full review
25
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallMar 17, 2016
The pleasures of Allegiant are unintended, those little bits of business taken so seriously that serious viewers must laugh. Read full review
25
Movie NationRoger MooreMar 16, 2016
This sort of movie really should be about more than meekly obvious names for human traits separated into tribes, the future tech, the dystopian landscape, the fashions, the hair styles...But there isn’t a line that lands, a scene that sticks with you, an emotion you feel or a moment this movie drags you to the edge of your seat. Read full review
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New York PostLou LumenickMar 17, 2016
By the time David gets someone to unleash the gas, I was wishing he could simply erase all memories of the sorry “Divergent’’ franchise. Read full review
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