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longlivethenewflesh
3/10  2 months ago
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.
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