Review of The 5th Wave (2016) by Pipec — 17 Feb 2016

An almost exact mix of "The Hunger Games" and "The Divergent Series".

One year more, and more best sellers have come. A teenage girl abandoned by her parents, five threatening waves, one brother to the rescue, and a couple of guys to fall in love. "The 5th Wave" is an adaption of the book of the 2013 written by Rick Yancey. Its main protagonist is the talented and beautiful Chloe Moretz as Cassie Sullivan, a high school student who is threatened by one group called "The Others ", she will need to survive in a dystopian world full of dangerous and enemies for one reason his younger brother. Director J Blakeson returns to be in the director's Chair and possibly create a successful and profitable franchise, emphasizing the script created by Jeff Pinkner, Susannah Grant and Akiva Goldsman that gives light to the atmosphere so off.

In the beginning, the character played by Chloe (Cassie) is the kind of good American girl cliche of some films. She attends a party up to certain time because her parents are home, loves his brother and sing you a song of good night, it's the same again. This middle class girl suffers a rapid transformation process, it all begins with the arrival of the aliens.

Appears momentarily the first wave, a pulse electromagnetic which leaves the town in shock. With a surprising and boring short duration each wave dismantling quickly, each with a duration of about 3 minutes, missed the potential that It had the introduction of the phases. Floods, tsunamis and tidal waves attack the world, establishing a short but sexy scene of Cassie escape and her brother.

The third phase is the flu, and shows us the introduction of characters with short duration and unnecessary (Cassie best friend) used only to create a dramatic scene, the same thing again.

As it was logical her family seek refuge after harrowing moments. The girl has to deal with horrible things (deaths, falls, lost, pains and all that stuff) but the worst is what gives way to the plot of the film, the abduction of her brother.

The training of the young soldiers is very similar to the tone in "Kingsman: The Secret Service", taking refuge in a room for everyone and subjecting them to harsh tests. The performance of Maika Monroe (Ringer) was quite successful and arguably is one of the young promises next to Chloe Moretz who truly have the honor to be called "actresses".

They have arrived and the plot twist of a discovery is maintained in a stable limit, being predictable for some but unimaginable to others. So finally the 5th wave happens, and the argument starts during this.

Walk through the dangerous forest with a gun makes see a totally powerful Lady and is on the road where it meets the twin "Four" ( The Divergent Series) Evan Walker (Alex Roe) a survivor with secrets who is madly in love with Cassie.

The work of Sam Sullivan (Zackary Arthur) is as to the height of the roles of older people, can tell no difference with his companions, this boy have future.

"The 5th wave" might be more successful if its producer Sony would have expected a little more of time, when the really interesting sagas like "Divergent" or "Maze Runner" had finished and the hungry young people will ask for new franchises. But they didn't , and now it seems to be an almost exact copy of its competitors. This film was not disappointing, but this was not the best time for Cassie.