The 5th Wave

To be honest, I didn't know anything about this movie and the book. I wanted to watch a tsunami movie and I googled it. Since I watched most famous tsunami movies, I saw the name of this movie in the list and started watching it. First of all, the tsunami scene took about 1 minute at most :) Generally speaking, I never bored, but I think it's a bad movie. I never liked the acting. C. G. Moretz is a good actress actually, but she didn't give a good performance. I haven't read the book, and probably I won't. Will the second movie come?

The 5th Wave (2016) is a movie I was obsessed with while I was at college and I would constantly rewatch it so many times that I have lost track of how many times I've watched it and I cover it. Now as an adult, this is one of those movies where you start to notice all of the major problems with it and yet I still find myself having some dumb fun.

Positives for The 5th Wave (2016): This is one of those movies that would be viewed as delicious garbage. There is so much wrong with the movie and yet I can still have fun watching and laughing at the stupidity on screen. The movie has a surprisingly stacked cast including Chloe Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson, Ron Livingston, Alex Roe, Maria Bello, Maika Monroe, Zackary Arthur, Liev Schreiber, Tony Revolori, Talitha Bateman and Nadji Jeter. They all do a fine job with what they have to work with. There is a decent shootout during one scene that was mildy entertaining. The movie has a good pace and I wasn't even bored for one second throughout the entire movie. And finally, this is the type of movie you need to turn your brain off so that you can enjoy it.

Negatives for The 5th Wave (2016): This movie is desperately trying to become a major young adult franchise and yet it feels like a young adult movie that I have seen many times before. I find it hilarious that everyone in the young cast looks clean and well groomed despite this movie taking place during an apocalypse. The movie tries to make Maika Monroe look like a badass and it just doesn't work and it's not that she can't play a badass, but Sony Pictures was trying way too hard. The CGI looks hilariously bad with the waves and the explosion at the end. The plot twist regarding the aliens is so painfully obvious that it is hilarious to watch. And finally, the movie ends on a note that tries to set up a possible franchise except Sony Pictures failed and it blew up in their faces.

Overall, The 5th Wave (2016) is a movies that I used to love, but t have to admit that it sucks and yet I would still have fun watching the movie.

For the first time i am writing a review for a movie. If you are not under 15 years old you should stay away from this movie because its just a really bad movie with some visual effects. The movie was looking good at first 10 minutes but after that everything in the movie started to seems stupid. Ending scene was the worst part of it. Scenario and most of the scenes in the movie is just disaster.

As a low-budget sci-fi flick, The Fifth Wave starts quite promisingly with a more logical continuation from the opening scenes of "Independence Day". The end of the world is nigh. An alien spacecraft has put itself into a threatening earth orbit (note: actually 'orbiting' - as a nod to science guys like me - rather than just inexplicably hanging there in the sky, as Douglas Adams once put it, "in much the same way that bricks don't").

The aliens are throwing calamity after calamity down at small-town America in 'waves': earthquakes; tidal surges; modified bird flu; and bombings.

Against this stressful backdrop, the ever-reliable Chloe Grace-Moretz ("Kick Ass"; "Let the Right One In") plays Cassie who after getting separated from her younger brother Sam (Zackery Arthur) faces the dangers of a cross-country Alabama trek to rescue him.

Like I said, quite a promising premise, and it flows quite nicely until the family get to a Fort Wilderness style sanctuary in the forest. There however the plot goes awry, with the aliens making a seemingly ridiculous strategic move.

Jaw-dropping dumbness now follows with a 'see-it-coming-from-a-mile-away' plot-twist casting Cassie onto her solo-mission, and the film declines into a rather poor 'Hunger-maze-giance' wannabe with Cassie torn between the affections of old crush Ben (Nick "Jurassic World" Robinson) and mysterious saviour Evan (Alex Roe). Much muscle-rippling and skinny-dipping ensues as Cassie oohs and aahs in a girlie fashion that erodes her kick-ass (no pun intended) characterization to date.

The director is J Blakeson.... no, me neither. This is only his second feature, and is a big ask.

The film rather obviously cues up a sequel: this is the first of a series of – apparently quite good – books by Rick Yancey, with the next in the series being called "The Infinite Sea". I don't think I will be rushing to the cinema to see the sequel, if it does happen.

A disappointing film that starts with real promise but then loses its way. Grace-Moretz really does deserve better. Nice animated Gif poster though!.

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We had The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, St Elmo's Fire, The Goonies to name but a few. Defining moments in movies, defining teenage angst, growing pains and young love and loves lost. Films that stand up today, not just for nostalgia's sake but because of solid acting, amazing characters and good stories.

I despair for the drivel that our millennial's have to endure today in the name of cinema. If you've grown up on good films through the years then you want to avoid The Fifth Wave. Encourage your young-lings to watch something else.

Chloe maybe a good actress, but she couldn't drag the film from the mire of this cliché driven plot line with shallow characters and an awfully banal story of an alien plot to take over the Earth in as seemingly clueless manner as possible.