Review of The 5th Wave (2016) by Michelle G — 22 Jun 2016

What a poorly acted terrible movie. The world is disintegrating and one of the child Warriors is coated in make up really .

This review of The 5th Wave (2016) was written by Michelle G on 22 Jun 2016.

The 5th Wave has generally received mixed reviews.

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By Abbie Bernstein (403) for Assignment X (330) on 01 Nov 2018

The 5th Wave is reasonably entertaining and it has something on its mind that is more nuanced than we might expect…

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By Jyrojyro (48) on 01 Aug 2017

Fairly cliche and often painstakingly boring. Chloe Moretz is awful here. I often wonder how book-to-movie adaptations such as this one go so wrong…

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By Keri H (22) on 13 May 2017

A movie about an apocalyptic situation. It has a decent story line, and the book was amazing. The movie fell short of that though…

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By Badgerryan19 (195) on 18 May 2017

The first act was promising. Then it gets bad and boring. A stupid love story and a cliched one. Chloe Grace couldn't even save the film…

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By Trent G (615) on 24 Jan 2018

I read the book first, and this followed the book decently…

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By John C (2,737) on 14 Apr 2018

Another series getting ready to bore Ya, about as exciting as fly paper. Might be ok if 20 minutes, aliens made this movie…

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By Berik (76) on 09 Feb 2021

Okay, wtf is this? What kind of drugs were the writers, director and producers on…

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By Daniel A (1,013) on 22 Aug 2017

The movie was really dissapointing. I have read the book and really enjoyed it, it was one of my favorite read of 2016…

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By Amanda Greever (35) for The Daily Times (Tennessee) (35) on 09 Jan 2019

Maybe the novel fleshes out the story and the characters, but that doesn't really help anybody who is going to see this movie…

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