The 5th Wave

2016 Directed by J Blakeson

Protect Your Own

16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.

Chloë Grace Moretz Nick Robinson Ron Livingston Maggie Siff Alex Roe Maria Bello Maika Monroe Zackary Arthur Liev Schreiber Tony Revolori Talitha Bateman Nadji Jeter Alex MacNicoll Matthew Zuk Gabriela Lopez Bailey Anne Borders David Maldonado Paul Ryden E. Roger Mitchell Charmin Lee Parker Wierling Madison Staines Terry Serpico Derek Roberts Geoffrey Kennedy Devin McGee Justin Smith Jim Sutton Adora Dei Show All…

Alternative Titles

A Quinta Onda, La 5 eme vague, The Fifth Wave, Penktoji banga, La Cinquième Vague, Ha'gal ha'khamishi, Peti talas, 5. fala, 5-я волна, Quinta Onda, La Quinta Ola, Beshinchi to‘lqin, Die 5. Welle, 5th Wave, The, Пятая волна, A 5ª Onda, Dot Tân Công Thu 5, П'ята хвиля, 5. Dalga, 第5毀滅, Piata vlna, Al 5-lea val, Piąta fala, 5-oji Banga

science-fiction adventure action

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Popular reviews

Review by Matthew L. Brady ★ 10

The 6th wave was the wave of people leaving the theater during the movie.
Review by former movie enjoyer ★ 13

chloe moretz should worry less about what other people do with their naked bodies and focus more on taking some acting classes :)
Review by adrianbalboa ★ 15

did i hallucinate this movie or did they really make a dumbed down version of the hunger games which is already a dumbed down version of batte royale? the first on a long list of mistakes was making local above-ground radish chloe moretz the main character when maika monroe is right there and far more likable but what was i expecting from an alien apocalypse teen romance action movie that didn't even bother to spell out the word "fifth" in its own damn title
Review by NickyD316 ★ 2

I can't help but feel like I've seen this movie before. Oh yeah, I have. A hundred times before.
Review by max ★ 2

this film literally includes that trope where the main female character (chloe grace moretz 💀) spies on the muscled male white love interest taking a bath and gets lowkey turned on. i swear nick robinson owes me some kind of reward for watching this ugly ass film exclusively for him
Review by Scott Anderson ½ 6

The 1st wave, I checked the clock on the wall to see what time it was. How long had it been since I pressed play? A little over an hour?
Balls. 8 minutes.
The 2nd wave, I ate some cookies and drank a tall glass of milk. 2 percent. 2nd wave. Coincidence? Of course. A delicious one.
The 3rd wave, everyone gets some sort of avian flu. Body bags everywhere. I had a slight tickle in my throat. I dramatically wonder aloud to myself as I looked at the once beautiful but now battered and bloated man staring back in the mirror...are terrible films contagious? No time to wait and find out. The damage was already done. I had to…
Review by Buddy O ★★

Shit
Review by William (first account) ½ 8

The 1st Wave: WE'VE BEEN EMPED!! OUR ELECTRONICS ARE DOWN!!!!
The 2nd Wave: SURF'S UP, DUDES!!!
The 3rd Wave: Beware of the Deadly Plague!!!
The 4th Wave: The Others Are Coming to Silence 'Em!
The 5th Wave: SIR YES SIR! Destroy All Humans
The 6th Wave: Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Wha! What?

OH MY GOD! Can these young adult adaptations ever die off already?
I thought video game to movie adaptations have been going on and on for the longest time in cinema starting with Super Mario Bros., Street Fighter, and Mortal Kombat: Annihilation to the very recent Warcraft, Assassin's Creed, and the very possible Tomb Raider reboot (God, help us all!). But, young adult movies needs to be eliminated for good cause…
Review by yazz! *･ﾟ✧ ★½ 6

catch me reactivating my 2015 ben parish/nick robinson fan account xx
Review by Tom dePerto ★ 7

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Review by Keegs 🌈 ★½

"She looks funny."
I found $20 buckeroos in the parking lot after the movie; it's the universe's way of reimbursing me for this shit.
Review by Tasha Robinson ★★½ 4

Sting says love is the seventh wave. Apparently humdrum, by-the-numbers apocalypse enabling Forbidden Teen Romance is the fifth wave. But then, I wasn't a fan of the book, which was a big bestseller, so I'm clearly out of step with the world's need for fairly generic downbeat dystopian YA action-adventure.
I may also be out of step with the world's need for romances between 18-year-olds and 25-year-olds. The one at the center of this movie is probably meant to fulfill some teen fantasies. (He's so mature and dreamy and devoted and way-ripped in that tasteful female-gaze lake-bathing scene.) But I just found it creepy that a dude old enough to have a couple of degrees was making stalker-eyes at a high-school student.
Full review for The Verge here.

Recent reviews

Review by DetectiveStudio ★★★★

It's a shame they never finished the series, I really enjoyed this story. How the film showed the world becoming this hostile environment was very well done.
Review by maryjethalis ★★★

que porra de final foi esse
Review by Metalfist ★★★½

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Het lijkt de laatste tijd weer erg in de mode te zijn om van die Young Adult boeken te gaan verfilmen. Liefst dan ook nog een reeks waar een aantal delen in zijn te vinden (The Hunger Games is een reeks van 3, The Maze Runner is ondertussen aan zijn 5e deel) en aan die voorwaarden voldoet The 5th Wave helemaal. Het derde deel moet weliswaar nog uitkomen, maar het werd al snel duidelijk dat Hollywood erop rekent dat ze dit ook nog verder kunnen uitwerken.
Want hoewel deze The 5th Wave op zich een vrij sluitend einde heeft, wordt er toch nog veel ruimte opengelaten voor verdere uitdieping van het plot. Van mij mag de sequel er in ieder…
Review by aventura ★★

passa tempo
Review by Potter Head 7 ★★

Chloe Grace Moretz is a likeable lead and gives a good performance. The two hunky men are solid; especially Nick Robinson. I appreciate that the film wasn’t reliant on CGI like other similar blockbusters. The sister/brother relationship was sweet. There’s some twists and turns. And Cassie isn’t a weak female protagonist, boy focused, or a damsel in distress.
The first half of the film is stronger than the latter half half though. The romance is underdeveloped; setting up another love triangle. It was laughably bad that Maria Bello’s nurse was wearing bright pink lipstick. Cassie just shooting at the air wasting bullets was stupid. The film also sets up sequels that we’re never going to get (maybe a Netflix series; I’d watch it.)…
Review by Martín ★

The scene where the kids are doing target practice at a gun range was the funniest scene I've EVER seen in the history of moviedom.
Review by maduangeli ½

this is ridiculous and completely nonsense
Review by squigglio ★★★★★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

so yeah basically kids rule?

also feels like they forgot to start the movie until halfway through
Review by Luke Lundy ★

I think this movie killed the teen dystopian genre of movies in the 2010’s
Review by Sávio Carvalho ★★★½

por um bom tempo romantizei um amor pós-apocalíptico. esse filme é legal, poderia ter uma continuação, gostaria de saber mais!
Review by nins ★

q ganas de ser 1 alien para q nick robinson me pegue si
Review by mariazoca ★★★★★

pfto