Review of The 5th Wave (2016) by Nerdconsultant — 23 Jan 2016
THE 5TH WAVE IS A MESS, PURE AND SIMPLE. It has very few original ideas. It seems to constantly rip off other movies in the hopes of becoming the next ‘Hunger Games’, ‘Maze Runner’ or ‘Divergant’, however I think it will be joining the myriad of young adult novel series that fail to get sequels like ‘Tomorrow When The War Began’, “The Gold Compass’ or ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ and yes I am aware that Percy Jackson got a 2nd movie, but really, that franchise is dead now.
The acting isn’t too bad, but it’s clear the actors have been poorly directed. The effects are rubbish and the story is so boring, over cliched and raises way more questions than answers that no one can care about.
It doesn’t inspire you to see a sequel, it just inspires you to see better movies and TV series, instead of watching this one. The only saving grace was kind of Maika Monroe and Nick Robinson’s performances, but even that is not enough to save this movie.
It was boring and a poor watch, I really have no desire to see where this possible franchise is going and I suspect this will tank at the Box Office.
This review of The 5th Wave (2016) was written by Nerdconsultant on 23 Jan 2016.
The 5th Wave has generally received mixed reviews.
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