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The 5th Wave

2016 Directed by J Blakeson

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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 Alex Roe Maika Monroe Zackary Arthur Liev Schreiber Maria Bello Maggie Siff Ron Livingston Talitha Bateman Tony Revolori Cade Canon Ball Flynn McHugh Alex MacNicoll Nadji Jeter Gabriela Lopez Bailey Anne Borders Parker Wierling Terry Serpico Charmin Lee Michael Beasley Matthew Zuk David Maldonado Paul Ryden E. Roger Mitchell Derek Roberts Geoffrey Kennedy Devin McGee Adora Dei Show All…

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Review by Matthew L. Brady ★ 5

The 6th wave was the wave of people leaving the theater during the movie.
Review by ellie ★ 15

chloe moretz should worry less about what other people do with their naked bodies and focus more on taking some acting classes :)
Review by Nick Da Silva ★ 2

I can't help but feel like I've seen this movie before. Oh yeah, I have. A hundred times before.
Review by josh lewis🌹 ★½ 2

i bet you the NRA has weekly private screenings of this in which they tell their members it is the finest documentary, not made by dinesh d'souza, to come out in years
Review by William ½ 9

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 Buddy O ★★

Shit

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Review by MarkoDj ★★★

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

Big surprise!

I like how this alien invasion works - through this 5 waves.
Although, the young prince/hero (alien hybrid) who helps Cassie to save brother and also become her love, is kinda pathetic and so predictable. But, the way it tragically ends, actually saves this film not to have only two stars.

And yes, Chloë Grace is real cutie!
Review by fodusempire

Why does the director initial his first name? This is the most important question.
Review by ericreis ½

This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
Review by Grant ★

Chloe Grace Moretz thinks that to act is just to put on various faces of confusion. It's hilarious.
Review by trudie ½ 1

1.5/10 - The 6th will hopefully be execs waving goodbye to a sequel.

Boring. Boring. Double boring. Read that in Alec Baldwin's Trump voice and you'll grasp how super boring it was. The romance made me want to top myself.
Review by happynorelle ★

This was just so bad....
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Review by Edgar Cochran ★½ 2

This is what happens when a The Last of Us fan who has no idea of what "filmmaking" means gets rejected by Ellen Page for the leading role but gets positive answers from equally avid videogame fans who would kill for saying to their friends at a movie theater: "Look! It's me, bíatch!"

A 6th wave is totally possible: this becoming a franchise. That definitely would imply the extinction of the human race.

35/100
Review by Andy Elijah ★★

The beginning and the end of this movie are both pretty good. Too bad about that pesky middle hour. This movie is very very stupid and really bad. Interesting themes but the execution couldn't get much worse. With at least four great young actors and a dude they called when Dave Franco was unavailable, it's also a big waste of talent. The romantic arc in this could be extracted and placed in a Zucker brothers parody of YA dystopian novels, without changing much in the process.

Chloe Grace Moretz...I know she can do good work. She's lovably and appropriately over the top in the Kickass movies, and great in Clouds Of Sils Maria. I think that it all depends on…
Review by Felino ★★

Uns extraterrestres ataquen la Terra mitjançant una sèrie d'atacs de diferent caire que els humans bategen com ones. La pel·lícula conta la història d'uns supervivents. Malgrat tindre una arrancada prometedora, la pel·lícula és el que és: una adaptació d'una sèrie de noveles juvenils. El resultat és un producte excessivament naïf, en el que l'argument avança a base de casualitats i, en general, les situacions resulten poc versemblants.