Then come the waves of the invasion: First, there’s an electromagnetic pulse that knocks out the power, the motor vehicles and the running water. To its credit, the lead character here is not a Chosen One: Cassie ( Chloe Grace Moretz) is a regular Ohio high schooler, texting her friends and awkwardly flirting with football player Ben ( Nick Robinson, “Jurassic World”), until the day that alien ships start appearing in the sky. See Video: Chloe Grace Moretz Has Her 'Last Normal Day' Before Aliens Invade in New '5th Wave' Trailer (Not even the scattered unintentional laughs are enough to make schadenfreude fans line up for a second helping.)
#The 5th wave series#
Had “The 5th Wave” mined the material for audacity, humor or even just reckless adventure, this might at least have been a mindlessly entertaining alternative to Oscar fare, but instead it’s a tedious slog, one designed to be a tentpole for an ongoing series that, after 112 plodding minutes, few would anticipate with anything but dread.
#The 5th wave movie#
The film is being sold as science fiction, but sometime around the point where the heroine spies on her hunky comrade-in-arms chopping wood (before displaying his chiseled torso in a lake) we realize that this is actually yet another terrible YA movie - a genre that’s reached such levels of audience exhaustion that you can’t blame the marketers for trying to hide the truth.
Like a bad orange, this adaptation of the series-spawning novel by Rick Yancey lacks both juice and flavor. You would expect a movie about militarized teens protecting the Earth from alien invasion to be pulpy, and “The 5th Wave” certainly is - but not in the good way.
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