“I am young innocent child and you must protect me!” – every YA child, EVER It is not terrible offensive though, because you end up understanding what’s important and rooting for your main characters. The flashbacks does its job, but as with all Dystopian works it can’t possibly hope to cover enough to even make sense. You are treated to a series of flashbacks that aim to tell you what happened to earth, who the extraterrestrial force might be, and what the 5th Wave will be – the last in a series of waves that will succeed in wiping out humanity. It has a few predictable plot twists and feels like it stole some ideas from other franchises, but it is generally a good film and I found a number of things to enjoy about it.Ĭhloë Grace Moretz plays lead female character Cassie Sullivan – a teenage girl thrust into the apocalypse when her biggest problem the previous day was catching the attention of Ben Parish (Nick Robinson), high school jock and general cutie. It has extremely low ratings on both and I can’t understand why after seeing it.

Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb has been really mean to this movie. It’s been shaky at times but that was clearly either because the movie was done so badly (like Vampire Academy, but since that has become my guilty pleasure I won’t say too much), or the fans couldn’t really care very much (Beautiful Creatures, which I won’t watch, because I hated the book) I guess that speaks as highly for the content of the YA adoptions as it does of its fans.

During the vampire craze the only vampires that really made it onscreen was the bunch from Twilight. I’m really still quite surprised dystopian / YA is making it on to the big screen. Cassie is on the run, desperately trying to save her younger brother. Plot: Four waves of increasingly deadly alien attacks have left most of Earth decimated.

Evan walker the 5th wave