The 5th Wave
Four waves of increasingly deadly alien attacks have already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age. Against a backdrop of fear and distrust, 16-year-old Cassie is on the run, desperately trying to save her younger brother.
29 May 1993, Santa Barbara, California, USA
16 May 1990, New York City, New York, USA
5 June 1967, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
June1990, Westminster, London, England, UK
4 October 1967, San Francisco, California, USA
29 January 1989, Tacoma, Washington, USA
July 19, 2016
The film feels rushed, the parallel storylines aren't equally satisfying and the CGI looks a bit too, well, CGI.
January 28, 2016
Ultimately squashed by a silly and generic love triangle that makes The Hunger Games look like Casablanca.
January 23, 2016
The death and destruction in "The 5th Wave" can be highly entertaining, but once that's over, the movie must follow its predetermined formula.
July 14, 2016
You don't often encounter a mix of pandering and incompetence glommed together this thoroughly.
November 15, 2016
Although it's based on Rick Yancey's young adult novels (two so far, and counting), The 5th Wave feels more as if it were cobbled together from a host of other, better science fiction stories.
February 04, 2016
"What's the point of any of this?" asks Cassie. I kept hoping, but no such luck. It's a question that is never answered.
January 26, 2016
The storyline is generic apocalyptic science fiction and feels a lot like an uninspired fusion of Independence Day and the TV mini-series "V".
August 02, 2016
The 5th Wave is simultaneously boring and cringingly overwrought, with a bland protagonist, a completely nonsensical story, and another teen love triangle.
May 31, 2016
Yes, there are some powerfully riveting moments and hordes of extremely watchable, athletic youngsters, but director J. Blakeson's film is a paint-by-numbers job that also leaves the ending, predictably, just hanging there.
January 24, 2016
The 5th Wave plays like a Wayans-brothers spoof of movies based on dystopian Young Adult novels. Seriously, it could have been called YA Movie the way it wallows in all the overly familiar tropes of the genre.
June 21, 2016
The following plea is for Chloe Grace Moretz: "PLEASE FIND A NEW AGENT!"
January 25, 2016
The whole thing appears to have been designed by some crazed Oedipal wing of the N.R.A.
