There's nothing more annoying than a movie that sets itself in a dystopia and then has a bunch of pretty people running around doing unbelievable things. Maybe if I was a third grader I would appreciate this fantasy but as an adult it was torture to watch.

This movie would need some serious surgery to actually pass as something I could make all the way through. I didn't make it all the way through by the way. The casting, direction and writing would all have to be redone. Basically, throw it all out and start over. Otherwise, this could possibly work as a Yahoo TV movie.

File this one in the folder of movies that think the audience is dumb and will just be wow'd by ridiculous action and young heroes. So annoying and such a waste of my time.

I only saw Divergent last year and I have completely forgotten the film apart from all that train jumping they did and it was another kind of The Hunger Games variant but based in a dystopian future world of a rigid caste system.

The sequel has Divergents Tris (Shailene Woodley),Tobias 'Four' (Theo James) Peter (Miles Teller) and Erudite Caleb (Ansel Elgort) take refuge in Amity but dictatorial Erudite leader Jeanine Matthews (Kate Winslet) sends her soldiers to find them.

Our group must find the remaining Dauntless warriors and the Factionless and lead an insurgency in some post apocalyptic Chicago. They must find out what Tris's family sacrificed their lives to protect and why the Erudite leaders will do anything to stop them.

The McGuffin here is a box that only a Divergent can open and for which you have to enter a world of Inception otherwise known as death defying simulated adventures that you have to survive to open the box of secrets.

The film is turgid, barely maintains your interest. When Jai Courtney turns up pursuing our heroes, you know you are in the safe hands of a film franchise killer.

Shailene Woodley as the bland, whimpering lead barely keeps the film together. She certainly is no Jennifer Lawrence and its left to Winslet to keep things going as the villain. The only other actor of note is a shifty Miles Teller who has since broken out on his own after Whiplash.

The film has numerous silly problems. There is a fight scene with an unruly mob in a train which goes on for a bit and several people get killed until Four reveals his identity and everyone stops and becomes friends. Why did he not do that in the first place? Its this kind of silliness that makes the film an incoherent mess.

INSURGENT is the latest young adult dystopian thriller to hit cinemas, following on from the previous instalment, DIVERGENT. I didn't like the first film, which had potential but wasted it in a too-familiar storyline, but this film is far, far worse. It's a movie that cheats and destroys audience expectations throughout by fuddling every single dramatic moment in the whole story.

The whole gamut of ways to cheat a viewer occur here: dramatic events that turn out to be dreams, characters who die but turn out not to be dead, characters who become turncoats only to reveal that they're not so bad after all. Basically everything important in the plotting is a lie, and that's the kind of thing that really annoys me as a viewer. Come the end of the film, very little of actual substance has taken place.

Otherwise, we get a bloated storyline with barely any good set-pieces or incidents, and instead just a lot of back and forth stuff. The emoting is particularly over the top this time around, and during a key scene in which star Shailene Woodley is forced to recall some past traumatic events, I found myself sniggering at her pitiful attempts at emotion. She's really bad, which is a surprise given she was quite good in the first film. The big name stars like Naomi Watts and Kate Winslet are poor too, and genuinely good players like Jai Courtney and Ray Stevenson are underutilised.