The 5th Wave

Plot synopsis:
In the opening scene, Cassie Sullivan (Chloe Grace Moretz) is walking through the woods with a gun in her hands. She comes across an empty store and takes what little supplies she can get her hands on. A voice is heard calling for help. Cassie finds a man hidden in the back. They both have their guns aimed at each other. The man lowers his gun but Cassie won't lower hers because the man is holding something in his hand. She orders him to show what's in his hand, but when he does, a light flashes from it and startles Cassie, prompting her to shoot the man. She sees that he was holding a crucifix, and she is horrified at what she's done.Several months earlier....Cassie was a regular 15-year-old teenager in high school girl. She lived with her parents Oliver (Ron Livingston) and Lisa (Maggie Siff), and her little brother Sam (Zackary Arthur) in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. Her best friend was Lizbeth (Gabriela Lopez) and she had a crush on football player Ben Parish (Nick Robinson). Soon, however, everything changed as a mysterious alien spaceships descended and remained hovering above everyone for a number of days without movement. The humans would come to refer to these visitors as "The Others".The Others unleash the first wave, which is an electromagnetic pulse that wipes out all the power on Earth. Planes fall from the sky and kill countless people. Without a fresh water supply, Cassie and Sam have to gather water from a nearby lake.The second wave brings powerful earthquakes and devastating tsunamis to coastal cities, killing even more people.The third wave has the Others modifying the avian flu, which infects people like Lizbeth and even Lisa. Cassie, Sam, and Oliver bury Lisa in the front yard of their house and say goodbye to her.The three head to a survivors camp. After a few days of residing in the camp, a large cloud of dust forms, and from it emerge military men in vans, led by Colonel Vosch (Liev Schrieber). He says he's there to help them. They gather all the children and send them on a bus to a safe location. Oliver reluctantly lets Cassie and Sam go. Sam forgets his teddy bear, so Cassie runs off the bus to grab it. The buses start driving away before Cassie can make it back.Vosch tells the adults that the fourth wave has begun. The Others have begun to use humans as physical hosts, inciting anger and panic among the adults that demand to know how they can tell who is really an Other. A gunfight breaks out, and nearly every adult is killed, including Oliver. Cassie mourns her father and proceeds to move forward on her own.The kids arrive at Camp Haven, a military training facility. Ben and Sam are among those that are recruited. They are given new nicknames as well - Ben is "Zombie" and Sam is "Nugget". Ben meets Sergeant Reznik (Maria Bello). She injects a tracker in the back of his neck and sits him down in front of a two-way mirror where a boy is hooked up to a chair. Reznik says the boy is really an Other. She shows Ben through a lens that the boy has a green skull, then gives Ben a button to kill the boy. Reznik sees that Ben is wearing his dead sister's necklace, using it as motivation to push Ben to press the button, which he does.Cassie carries a gun that her father gave her before he died. She arrives at the abandoned convenience store in the opening scene and is forced to shoot and kill the wounded man as seen before.Next, Cassie walks through an abandoned freeway littered with many abandoned cars and sees many dead bodies. A shot is fired, hitting Cassie in the leg. More gunfire is heard, and Cassie crawls to safety under one of the cars before she passes out from blood loss.Meanwhile, Ben and the other kids start their training. He befriends another kid named Dumbo (Tony Revolori), and they are presented with a girl called Ringer (Maika Monroe), who is tough and takes crap from no one. She is an excellent shot, and she teaches the kids how to shoot after Ben takes her down during training.Cassie wakes up to find herself in the care of a young man named Evan Walker (Alex Roe). He tends to her gunshot wound. Cassie wants to leave and find Sam, but Evan warns her that it would be dangerous for her to go out there on her own without protection. Cassie discovers that Evan took her gun and hid it. She runs away but sets off one of his traps in the woods. Evan runs back to her and protects her as someone else with a gun is walking through the woods.At Camp Haven, Colonel Vosch brings Ben into the control center and tells him that the fifth wave is already happening. He gives him a helmet that will allow him to detect an Other so that he can easily kill them.Evan teaches Cassie how to defend herself by showing her how to take someone's gun and incapacitate them. She shows him pictures of the people she used to know and love before the invasion. Quickly, Cassie and Evan develop an attraction for each other.The kids are brought to a location where Others have been detected. They spot a number of people with green skulls and fire at them. However, they then see Ringer through their lens and see a green skull. Before anyone can shoot her, Ben stops them. He is spotted with a green skull too. He quickly realizes that Vosch and Reznik lied to them, and that THEY are really Others. The fifth wave is the kids themselves. Since they are easily manipulated, they are being used as pawns to slowly wipe out the rest of the humans.Cassie learns that Evan is not quite human after witnessing him kill someone in the woods. He claims that when the alien ship arrived, a switch went off in him. He says he saved her when she got shot from someone else in the distance. Evan claims that his love for Cassie is making him more human. She runs from him and is rescued by the military.Cassie is taken to Camp Haven and goes through the same process as the other kids, only this time she can immediately spot something suspicious with Reznik. The two of them fight until Cassie knocks Reznik out.Ben confronts Vosch about the truth, to which he confirms that he and the rest of the military personnel are Others, and that they need the Earth for themselves. The base is then infiltrated. Cassie runs into Ben, and is then reunited with Sam. Evan shows up and kisses Cassie one last time before he goes to blow up the facility. The heroes run outside as the place is blown up. Ringer rescues them in a van, and they drive away, while Cassie watches as the place is destroyed, sad for Evan's sacrifice. But Colonel Vosch and the rest of the infected military and child cadets escape in a fleet of helicopters and fix-wing aircraft.The kids then set up their own camp, with some of the other kids like Dumbo joining them. Cassie closes the film by narrating that they haven't lost hope, and that hope is keeping them alive.

Tags: murder, violence, flashback, good versus evil, romantic, tragedy, brainwashing, suspenseful

Review:
decent special effects, seeing what each "wave" was going to do and I was looking forward to seeing "the others", but alas that was it for the movie after that it was like opening a teen magazine while jamming a skewer up my nose in to my brain.I must say I did get a few laughs at the many clichés I called before they happened followed by my swift exit to save my brain from rotting by the absurd stupidity of it all.
The screenplay focuses primarily on one Ohio family, and, specifically, their teenage daughter, Cassie (Chloe Grace Moretz), who suddenly has to find ways of surviving in this new and dangerous world where everyone is out for him- or herself and, thus, no one can be trusted.As they pass through desolate, auto-strewn landscapes that look like they came straight out of "The Walking Dead," Cassie and a caring (and dreamy) stranger (Alex Roe) - who saves her life at one point and rehabilitates her to full health - go in search of her missing little brother.
And, speaking of TWD, since the movie can't fit any ACTUAL zombies into its narrative, it partially compensates by at least having a character NAMED "Zombie" (Nick Robinsons).Ah well, after a few moments of fleeting interest in the early stages, the movie quickly settles into a predictable and boring series of teen drama, alien invasion and end-of-the-world tropes.
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..
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).
If it weren't for some huge writing flaws like gaping holes in logic, super flimsy character development, completely unnecessary romantic "tension" crowbarred-in and the aforementioned models-where-actors-should-be trope, the idea and story could have been pretty cool.I was actually looking forward to seeing this movie, but honestly just had to force myself through from about the half hour mark.Adding insult to injury is the very obvious set up for what the film makers are most likely hoping will be two or more sequels.Twilight, but aliens.
The fighting and shooting are big budget action movie standard and well done considering it's kids who are doing the fighting.As the plot twists the story makes sense in it's own way and is clear enough to follow.
Joining that list, rather late in the race, is The 5th Wave – a pointless save the world mishmash that feels like the retarded offspring between Independence Day and Red Dawn, but without any redeeming qualities from the parents.Going from normal high schooler to gun-toting survivalist, Chloe Grace Moretz's Cassie Sullivan is both the heroine and narrator of this alien invasion for the new generation.
Having said that, I have watch a host of various genre films, and the ones that I truly love and deem classic, are downloaded and kept in my movie library for entertainment purposes when needed.
I hope they make the next two books into movies as well I can't wait to see what happens .Even though they don't show real aliens I was on the edge of my seat from the beginning of the movie until the end of the movie .I loved all of the characters especially Evan .When I came home I was frantically texting all my friends telling them they had to go see this movie right away.
When the movie finally came out, I went in on the first day and first session, and boy was I not disappointed!Director J Blakeson did an amazing job with pretty much everything in this movie!Chloë Grace Moretz made a terrific performance playing the title role Cassie Sullivan.
I don't  really like films about alien invasions, but this one is by far the  best - and I still think "The 5th Wave" will be better than  "Independence Day: Resurgence" which releases in cinemas this June!
I think the book/movie have a amazing idea, I love the way Rick Yancey writes and I love the book, the movie is so good-disappointment to me, I think the movie is good because I really felt the same emotions that I had when I've read the book, but for other side I think the people that not have read the book before see the movie could be confuse while they see the movie, The Reason: The way everything happened on the movie is too fast, and I think they wasted the amazing idea of the waves because the movie is more about the Cassie's journey to go for Sammy and Zombie's training , I really loved the movie because I really felt so happy while I was seeing, I really hope the second part The Infinite Sea but whit another director (So sorry J Blackerson no it's nothing personal) Pd: I loved all the actors in the movie.
Divergent was one of those movies that didn't make a whole lot of sense if you watched the movie before reading the book, but I gave it a second chance and ended up liking it.
The only problem for me was the sudden ending which resolved a few things but obviously was intended to spark a sequel.So if you like apocalypse movies and or Chloe Moretz you should enjoy it..
Then the proceed to tell us about Zombie and Nugget and Ringer (In the book this is a longer section and I feel like it was glossed over in the movie) and if you read the book the who like prologue is removed so when Dah Dah Dah happens I don't know if people saw it coming at all, so I'm kind of surprised people hated it.Overall, there is a love triangle and here's where my thoughts or problems with the book and the movie differ.
Now, however, the industry finds itself in more dire straights, so it only seemed right that Rick Yancey's novel "The 5th Wave," the first of a trilogy, would find itself blown up on the big screen sooner or later.For the first time in recent memory, after practically sneering at every adaptation of "The Hunger Games" in some way and totally dismissing "Divergent" all around, I've found a young adult franchise I'm actually really intrigued in seeing adapted to film.
During their stay, the U.S. Army arrives, commanded by Colonel Vosch (Liev Schreiber), stating that all the children must be bussed to safety, while the adults need to be inspected because "the others" have found a way to come down to Earth in the form of humans.Cassie winds up getting separated from Sammy, and she must defend herself as she tries to define the fourth and fifth waves and figure out how to combat them.
We can believe the events and how they affect the characters because, for one, screenwriters Susannah Grant, Akiva Goldsman, and Jeff Pinker don't dwell on "woe is me" sequences for our lead character and constantly emphasize her strength by her actions rather than her image, and two, Moretz is a talented enough performer in her young age to handle enough emotional weight quite effectively.I find it intriguing how so much emphasis was placed on "The Hunger Games"'s Katniss Everdeen character, when she was about as opaque of a character as you can get when it comes to a female hero, and by the end of the second part of "Mockingjay," nobody seemed to care that the entire end sequence was a contradiction of her being.
I am seeing a lot of critical and negative reviews about this Film.I actually enjoyed it even after I realized it was more of a Young Teen adult Family movie.
It resembled both movies when characters were looking at the ship, but I thought it resembled War Of The Worlds with Tom Cruise a little more than Independence Day, especially with the tactics the aliens were using to wipe out the human race.
I felt like a couple of their waves resembled other films like The Day After Tomorrow, and Deep Impact, as the tsunami scene reminded me of the one in The Day After Tomorrow.But, I felt like this movie more so resembled recent movies and stories we are more familiar with like The Hunger Games and Divergent.
I feel like we have to know the characters a little better to get to like them and care for them more, to make a really good movie, before we go to the action.
I hope there is, and since I haven't read the books I'm really curious to find out what happens next?So, while I've compared this movie to Hunger Games and Divergent, action movies where the main characters are females like this one.
Over the past few years we've had a plethora of books made into movies like The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner, Divergent and Twilight along with their sequels.
Another adaptation in the long line of young adult fiction is The 5th Wave which starts off promisingly but then becomes another generic teenage film with a romance subplot and unconvincing action scenes.Cassie Sullivan (Chloe Grace Moretz) is just a normal teenage girl living happily in Ohio with her father (Ron Livingston), mother (Maggie Siff) and brother, Sam (Zackary Arthur).
Four years after the last "Twilight" film, the year after the "Hunger Games" series ended and the year before the "Divergent" and "Maze Runner" franchises finish showing teens how to survive the end of the world, 2016 gives us "The 5th Wave" (PG-13, 1:52).
Lastly, as USA Today's review of the book states, "The 5th Wave" does "for aliens what 'Twilight' did for vampires." Of course, borrowing from previous stories doesn't mean that this one isn't original, or good.Meet Cassiopeia Marie Sullivan, our newest cinematic YA heroine.
I mean films like Hunger Games, Divergent, Maze Runner, amazing spider-man can get serious good rating when all these are actually crap.
She'll have to overcome many perils along the way, but a promise is a promise and it must be kept against all odds.It's a movie which bases its story on a devastated Earth after four waves of alien attacks and presents the adventures of a teenage girl who must venture into the unknown in order to be reunited with her brother.
Nick Robinson then has to carry the film for half an hour which he just about manages in spite of an endless 'wave' of movie clichés (think Twilight, Hunger Games, Divergent etc) that come thick and fast.
I am a fan of SCI-Fi films, like many movie genre's it asks a lot of questions, questions we can only dream of the answers to for now, Who are we?, where are we going?, the meaning of life?...is there life on other planets or are wee the only form of sentient life in the entire universe?....
Apart from Dark Shadows i had only seen her in The Equaliser from her credits so far, a movie that had me wanting to dash into the screen for what happened to her character, not that i'm a sucker for any hard luck story however she did portray the character we'll enough to put a lump even in the most heart hearted of viewers throats, i'll be interested in future films with this up and coming actress on the billing.3.
what can i say "Liev Schreiber" great to watch in any Movie and although i had seen his work on other Movies it wasn't until Defiance did i see the grit this actor has to deliver a strong role.I for one would like to see sequels to The Fifth Wave and watch the talent on screen develop these characters - and i wouldn't want the story to end where it did when i watched what i hope is only Part 1 of the saga tonight..
The site's critical consensus reads, "With unimpressive effects and plot points seemingly pieced together from previous dystopian YA sci-fi films, The 5th Wave ends up feeling like more of a limp, derivative wriggle." Metacritic gives the film a score of 33 out of 100, based on 30 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".
On CinemaScore, audiences gave the film an average grade of "B–" on an A+ to F scale.-Rob Vaux of the Sci-Fi Movie Page gave the film one star out of five, saying, "The YA adaptation craze hits a low point with this aimless, purposeless alien invasion story that wastes a fine cast." In the San Francisco Chronicle, Mick LaSalle wrote, "rarely does a movie that fails so utterly start so well", falling apart ahead of the fifth wave.
Eddie Cockrell of Variety gave the film a mixed review, saying, "The 5th Wave is an effectively decent post-apocalyptic, young adult, world-in-the-balance survival thriller" with an "arrestingly original spin on trendy genre tropes", although he suggested that fans of the book may have "issues with what has been edited".-Brian Truitt of USA Today gave the film a positive review, rating it 3 out of 4 stars, stating that it "is an inviting sci-fi invasion", and praising Moretz and Robinson as "equally strong" co-leads.
Shannon Harvey of The West Australian also gave the film a positive review, writing, "It's actually got a lot going for it, from acting prodigy Chloe Grace Moretz as the kind of tough but fragile heroine you can cheer for to handsome production values, several plot twists".
Just got done seeing the 5th wave with my boyfriend and I thought it was very good and cute i loved the romance between Cassie and Evan Walker i also like the plot......
My thing is though i don't understand why so many people hated this movie yea i can see the cheesiness but it also has a lot of suspenseful moments and this movie almost made me cry twice seriously and i don't like Chloe Grace Mortez but I actually enjoyed her tomboyish role in this film she was such a cool character I think she played her well!
even though The 5th Wave is not at the same level of the much-acclaimed Hunger Games, it remains for much of the running time a captivating and thrilling watch.Based on a trilogy of books by American author Rick Yancey, the protagonist of the movie is Cassie Sullivan (Chloe Grace Moretz), a teenager living in Ohio whose ordinary life is altered after a mysterious alien invasion starts killing every humans on earth.
Just like Katniss can't do without Peeta and Gale, Cassie has the help of Evan Walker (Alex Roe), a boy who lived on a farm and her high school crush, Ben Parish (Nick Robinson from Jurassic World) to assist her in fighting her way to Sam. The 5th Wave has a lot in common with The Hunger Games.
Liev Schrieber, who I know from CSI as well as many films, played Colonel Vosch, a character with little emotion but lots of menace, and there was a good supporting cast of children who were being trained to save the world.
The acting was bad, Chloe Grace Moretz starring in this movie gave me some hope cause I like her but even she was bad.
I personally only liked Cassie's acting( the others were at least better than the boy from the Jungle Book), and I think that they kept in a good amount of detail( although they left out some details and changed some things, and that added a few plot holes.) In all, I think it was a good movie, and you truly should read the book before you say anything about the film.
The world is taken over by aliens and the solution they came up with is that people like Maika Monroe and Chloë Grace Moretz (that are super annoying by the way) are going to save us, plus a bunch of kids.
Normally I'd give a movie like this 5 or 6 stars, but I give it 7, because although none of its elements are truly great, I think they pull through on all elements at the same time, in the end the acting pulls the overall score up a little bit.
I don't know why, I guess it looks that way.The 5th Wave remains an entertaining movie but it feels more like a teen flick for prepubescent tweets than a Young Adult movie.By @ericgarcy.
While there are some really amazing top SciFi effects in this movie and some great disaster scenes that make it worthwhile, once the effects are over, you'll start to realize you are watching a young adult love story with Chloe Grace Moretz and some other guy.
The premise (not the alien invasion that is seen in the trailer, but everything surrounding the 5th wave, basically the crux of the movie) is so absolutely ludicrous that I said to myself "this has to be based on some idiotic book by some hunger-games/divergent/twilight idiot of an author".