The 5th Wave Film Review

Finished watching The 5th Wave directed by J Blakeson and staring Chloë Grace Moretz, Matthew Zuk, Ron Livingston, Zackary Arthur, Maggie Siff, Liev Schreiber and Alex Roe. The film opens up with Cassie Sullivan (Chloë Grace Moretz) entering an abandoned gas station finding supplies when she shoots a wounded man (Matthew Zuk) in the back of the building after thing that he is pulling out a weapon. The film then flashes back to before the appearance of an alien ship over the Earth as the aliens named the Others by the world begin to invade through different waves that are destructive to the humans but the the planet itself. After surviving several of the aliens waves ranging from a large EMP across the world to a world wide earthquake where parts of the plant landmass become flooded, Cassie's father Oliver (Ron Livingston) and her brother Sammy (Zackary Arthur) leave their home and go to a local refuge camp after Cassie's mother Lisa (Maggie Siff) died from a disease that wiped out most of the human race. While at the camp a convoy of army trucks and school buses under the command of Colonel Vosch (Liev Schreiber) evacuate the children inside the camp to an army camp while the adults are gunned down in a building when a couple of parents start to panic due to being separated from their kids. As all of this is happening Cassie gets stuck on the grounds when trying to get Sammy's teddy leading to her to find her way to the Army camp. Overall this was a decent film as it dives into the struggles that the human race has with an alien invasion. The character journey of Cassie in the later part of the film with how she is heading to the the army camp to rescue her brother is very interesting in the lengths that she goes through to find Sammy. However the romance that Cassie makes with Evan Walker (Alex Roe) seems a little forced and almost comes out of the blue because Evans motives in helping Cassie seem a little too convenient for the plot. The story itself felt very predictable as a few of the plot points seemed very obvious especially the later half of the film as it plays on typical sci fi conventions. While the action scenes in the film are great especially the gun fights which are full of tension between each party that is involved. 6/10.