3 September 2018
The Fifth Wave 2016
- Director: J Blakeson
- Based on the novel by Rick Yancy
- Cast: Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson, Ron Livingston, Liev Schreiber, Maika Monroe, Alex Roe
- Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
- Chloë Grace Moreta – Dark Shadows, Hugo, Five Hundred Days of Summer
- Liev Schreiber – The Butler, Mental, Everyday Life, Repo Men, Taking Woodstock, Defiance, Kate & Leopold, Hamlet
- Why? Sci fi, cheap
- Seen: 1 September 2018
An alien space ship hovers over Ohio. Teen Cassie is witness to a global power outage that threatens civilisation. That’s the first wave, the second wave is massive earthquakes and tsunamis, the third a pandemic avian flu. The fourth wave is the aliens landing and taking human form.
Cassie’s parents are killed along with almost everyone else. She is separated from her little brother and flees to the forest when he is driven off to a military camp where kids are turned into soldiers to fight the aliens.
It’s a teen film with teens clichés but it’s quite good nevertheless. It’s exciting with a touch of existential angst. Not a bad premise, nicely executed by the almost novice cast. There are a few too many holes in the logic to really convince but if you can live with that you might find it entertaining.
2 ½ * of 5
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