It's a tried and true story for the post-apocalyptic genre and doesn't do anything This movie was entertaining and followed pretty closely to the book and yet still getting such bad reviews! Sandie Angulo Chen, Common Sense Media. Close-ups of Moretz's terrified face predominate throughout.
Parental guidance gets squeezed when her mom (Maggie Siff, so good on Billions) and dad (Ron. This message gamely survives a screenplay by Susannah Grant, Akiva Goldsman and Alex Pinkner that seems perversely determined to keep the best parts of the book out of the movie (in the same way the much-discussed Battle of Yonkers didn't make it into "World. Everything that comes after the confident, dangerous first half-hour just makes you pine for what.
Then we learn that Earth is under steady attack from an alien species, hovering in spaceships and releasing waves of destruction — disease, tsunamis. Now available on Blu-ray and DVD (Buy on Amazon). But what it lacks in flash it makes up for with teen. What would you do to save your family if evil aliens invaded? The YA adaptation craze hits a low point with this aimless, purposeless alien invasion story that His work has appeared on Flipside Movie Emporium, Mania.com, Collider.com and Filmcritic.com as well as the Sci-Fi Movie Page. Chloë Grace Moretz gets feisty in an attempted sci-fi franchise.
Trailer The 5th Wave
I don't know about you, but when I go to an alien-invasion movie I want to see some aliens invading. This is evidently not a priority for director J Blakeson, however. Bolstered by the sublime Chloë Grace Moretz and a surprising refusal to cushion the brutality of its setup, this dystopian detour is entertaining and engrossing despite its familiar parts.
None of them feels close enough. The title refers to the stages of invasion, as unseen aliens quietly take over the planet. Most of humanity has been killed by disasters or disease, with the survivors waiting for whatever the next wave of attack might be. Four waves of increasingly deadly alien attacks have left most of Earth devastated, and most of the humans dead.