If you watch the trailer you can tell how much of a shallow experience this is going to be. I actually recommend just watching the trailer, there's nothing else to add by watching the whole thing. Since I've read the book series in my teen years, I felt that I needed to watch anyway to get my two cents:

They manage to translate the book really well, as far as visuals. Some scenes were exactly how I envisioned while reading, which made the full watch worthy for me. But the overall tone of the book series is way heavier. I read them while I was younger, but I remember feeling like there was much more in line then just a plastic surgery. You can tell something bigger and sinister is going on before the secrets start to come up. I didn't get that from the movie at all. The CGI was cheap looking and sometimes distracting. Happy to see Laverne in this character, though. Hope her character and the tone of the series gets heavier and heavier. But coming from Netflix, I'm not so hopeful.

For a dystopian teen movie, this is too vanilla for my taste. The Hunger Games had more nerve in their first movie.

Certainly not pitched at my age demographic, probably more likely my daughters, to me this seems like your usual dose of somewhat shallow woke-ism.

I didn't linger too long but what I found ironic is how this film makes a pitch for "diversity" which always end up looking like "conformity". Join "tribe" A (the beautiful brainwashed technocrats) or B (the alleged non conformists agrarians) and its collectivism, not individuality, whichever way you cut it.

Action is alright, acting is alright and special effects seem reasonable. I think a certain youthful viewer may like it but perhaps fail to appreciate, what's missing from the conversation.

In summary, I see no overly positive message here. Perhaps aside from a rather basic rejection of physiological stereotypes. Whats more important is the right to true individuality, which extends beyond the superficial, to meaningful things like free speech and free expression. Its the loss of these basic freedoms that define us as human, in the name of conformity, that's truly ugly.