She already lost her parents to the virus, and now, with the fifth wave on its way, she spends the rest of the movie trying to find and save her younger brother and his teddy bear, narrating her thoughts in a corny combination of flashbacks and diary entries that evoke guffaws. The protagonist is a girl named Cassie (played by the talented Chlöe Grace Moretz, who already paid her dues as the star of the Carrie remake and deserves better). The only survivors are teenagers clinging to cell phones and bottled water whose lives are whipped into shape when they are forced into unisex boot camps to defend themselves against the alien invasion. The first four waves have already wiped out whole cities (great shots of empty Manhattan streets, filled with flood water and going down for the count). The narrative in this time-waster is both familiar and forgettable: it’s the usual routine of bad music and the challenges of the next Saturday night prom, until an alien space ship arrives, unleashing a killer virus in the form of five shock waves, the purpose of which is to destroy the human race.
Starring: Chloë Grace Moretz, Matthew Zuk and Gabriela Lopezīased on a trilogy of preposterous YA novels by fantasy writer Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave has mediocre direction by somebody called J Blakeson, a few good special effects worth seeing but not discussing in any kind of meaningful detail and a monotonous script by three human word processors who should remain nameless (although one of them, Susannah Grant, wrote Erin Brockovich and therefore knows better). Written by: Susannah Grant, Akiva Goldsmith and Jeff Pinker They must write book reports from Classics Illustrated comics.
Rowling and nothing at all about Jane Austen. In the fifth wave, humans will live like cockroaches.Īnother boring and cliché-riddled bid to join the young adult market already overpopulated by X-Men, Hunger Games, Twilight vampires and interminable hordes of rampaging zombies, The 5th Wave is a typical example of the kind of dopey junk that passes for literature among today’s unsophisticated teens, who know everything about J.
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