Around this time the military shows up, led by Colonel Vosch (Liev Schreiber). Next up on the aliens’ hit list is a modified bird flu, which is followed by the invasion of the aliens who, conveniently, take the form of humans. So far, so good, and director J Blakeson stages these early scenes with the right mix of terror and uncertainty.
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THE 5TH WAVE WAVES MOVIE
Next up are the floods, triggered by a string of tidal waves that destroy the world’s coastal cities (and true to disaster movie form, we get to see them take out important world landmarks bye bye, London’s Tower Bridge). These “galactic party crashers” initiate a series of events, or “waves,” to annihilate humankind, beginning with an electromagnetic pulse that wipes out the world’s power. But when an alien spacecraft starts hovering in the sky above her Ohio hometown, things get real. It stars Chloe Grace Moretz as Cassie Sullivan, a self-described “totally normal high school girl” who’s biggest problem is the crush she harbors on Ben Parish (“The Kings of Summer’s” Nick Robinson).
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Add in a little inter-species romance, a la “Twilight,” and “The 5th Wave” has all the makings of a genre parody, if only it had that much of a sense of humor about itself. Look at “The 5th Wave.” After “The Hunger Games,” “Divergent” and “The Maze Runner” series have jammed multiplexes in recent years, “The 5th Wave,” indeed, feels like the fifth wave of book-to-screen adaptations of end-of-the-world stories aimed at young adults.Īnd “The 5th Wave” - based on Rick Yancey’s novels - is definitely warmed-over material, cobbled together from the pieces of those previously mentioned sagas. Alien attacks, military dictatorships, cute boys - it’s not easy being a post-apocalyptic teenager these days.Īnd it’s not easy launching a post-apocalyptic teenager franchise these days, either.