THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT (2016) Movie Reaction! | First Time Watch | First Time Watch

The hosts criticize how Tris, the main protagonist, loses her agency throughout the film. She is often a passive recipient of information or instructions, rather than actively driving the plot, which felt inconsistent with her character in previous installments.

Jaby states, "It also feels like they really took our main character and we're like, 'All right, cool.' Any sort of agency you had over yourself, gone. Let's just throw that out the window cuz it's inconvenient for our plot." Michael adds, "Tris was just sitting there going, 'Oh, but we got to wait for the council.'"

David (Jeff Daniels) is deemed a 'sniveling and obnoxious' villain who lacks the compelling presence of Janine (Kate Winslet) from earlier films. His motivations and actions are not clearly established or impactful enough, making him a less engaging antagonist.

Michael notes, "I think Jeff Daniels's villain didn't have and that may be because he wasn't going to be really villainy until the fourth movie and this was like his transition of revealing himself as a villain. But I I just felt like we got rid of Kate Winslett who was genuinely fun to watch as an antagonist and now we got this Jeff Daniels character who's like just I don't know kind of sniveling and obnoxious."

The memory-wiping gas is introduced as a powerful weapon but is inconsistently applied and ultimately ineffective in creating genuine stakes. The hosts question why main characters are immune or only partially affected, and why the gas, described as heavy, doesn't fill rooms more thoroughly.

Jaby points out, "I think I think one big problem with this film is they introduced a weapon or a tool that becomes a huge plot hole, which is the the forget gap." Michael adds, "It was largely ineffective because the gas was poured over the entire city and everybody just walked out okay having like micro dosed on it."

Allegiant significantly underperformed at the box office, leading to the cancellation of the planned fourth film. This failure is attributed to franchise fatigue, poor critical reception, the decision to split the final book, and strong competition from other major releases like 'Zootopia' and 'Batman v Superman'.

Jaby reads, "The final installment was cancelled after the third film, Allegiant, underperformed at the box office... By 2016, audiences were already tired of young adult dystopian films... The film was critically panned... Allegiant opened up against major box office competitors like Zootopia, Batman v Superman."