a5c7b9f00b When Earth is attacked by aliens, there is a sequence of waves of destruction to annihilate the population. The aliens drain the energy and create diseases and natural disasters. The teenager Cassie Sullivan moves with her family to the countryside, but when her mother Lisa dies, her father Oliver decides to go to a refugee camp with Cassie and her young brother Sam. Out of the blue, the army comes to the camp to transfer the survivors to a military base. They transfer the children first but Cassie misses the bus where Sam is. She learns that the in the 5th wave, the aliens have assumed the human form and she witnesses the military executing the civilians in the camp including her father. She flees and now she begins her quest to find Sam. Meanwhile the teenagers and children are trained by the military to fight the enemy. But how to know who is human and who is alien? Four waves of increasingly deadly attacks have left most of Earth in ruin. Against a backdrop of fear and distrust, Cassie is on the run, desperately trying to save her younger brother. As she prepares for the inevitable and lethal fifth wave, Cassie teams up with a young man who may become her final hope - if she can only trust him. This movie borders on unwatchable. If you&#39;ve read the book, do not bother with the movie, the one or two small nods to the book are bastardized by the rest of the movie. However, even if I hadn&#39;t read the book, I would still never recommend this movie.<br/><br/>There is no nuance or any real continuity in this movie. I understand that it doesn&#39;t have the liberty of unlimited space like a book does, however there is no real attention paid to allowing the audience to know any of the characters. <br/><br/>All the non-main characters (i.e. Sam and Ringer) have no personality, if you hear them speak, and seem to have no real reason behind their actions. Even the main characters like Cassie and Ben appear to not be able to think of themselves and pull conclusions out of nowhere, even without being prompted. <br/><br/>Also, all of the clichés about teenage love are sickening and are really forced into the movie. <br/><br/>The book had real potential for a movieit was a great story, but this movie was rushed and terrible. I would have given it a 1 star, but some of the special effects are good. Ugh, but the movie storyline is just such garbage. I would have been so upset if I had seen it in the theater. Sci-Fi movies in general are not my cup of tea but this one is a real stinker on all fronts. I gave it a 3 solely on the performance of CGM who did a masterful job despite pedestrian script and some awful acting by her peers.<br/><br/>If this was the very first movie a person watched in their lifetime the plot could not have fooled an utter idiot. From his first appearance on screen the &quot;Army&quot; colonel was uncoveredone of the &quot;others&quot;. And Ben was easily discoveredone of the &quot;others&quot; - after all, how could he remain undetected in the house with &quot;others&quot; walking all around him? And the squad commander who inserted the trackers in the captured humans - her leering smile gave her awayone of the bad guys immediately (not to mention it would not have been so easy to remove the trackers since they were like those used to identify lost animals and are not removable without surgery).<br/><br/>And why would the &quot;Army&quot; use school buses to transport the adult humans to an Air Force base? When Cassie and Ben are running through the woods they are overflown by several &quot;others&quot; in some sort of aircraft yet remain undiscovered. They could have easily been detected by infra-red cameras and certainly an advanced culture suchthe &quot;others&quot; would at least have that.<br/><br/>The character of Ben makes no sense at all. He is an &quot;other&quot; but then he is not. Other than spending the night in the Jeep with Cassie there is no indication that he has been changed by falling in love with her.<br/><br/>It is a damn shame that Rod Serling couldn&#39;t live forever and instead left drivel like this for us to watch. This is $38M wasted. The 5th Wave finds a way to make the most of Moretz’s talents, with the emotionality she showed in If I Stay and the utter physical chutzpah of her Kick-Ass films.
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