Jackson Booth-Millard I saw the trailer for this movie in the cinema, I am a fan of the leading young actress, so that a big draw for me, and it looked like something good, I read later the negative reviews it received, but I was still willing to give it a chance, directed by J Blakeson (The Disappearance of Alice Creed). Basically a city-sized alien spaceship suddenly appeared above Earth, the extra-terrestrials are referred to as "The Others", and teenager Cassie Sullivan (Chloë Grace Moretz) recounts the events following the invasion. The alien invaders unleashed made four attacks, referred to as Waves of destruction. In the 1st Wave, an electromagnetic pulse permanently destroyed all electrical power, including transportation and water. In the 2nd Wave, the planet's geology and fault lines were manipulated by the Others, causing earthquakes and mega-tsunamis that destroyed coastal cities and islands. In the 3rd Wave, a strain of avian flu virus was spread, with birds carrying the infection across the planet, one of the casualties was Cassie's mother Lisa (Maggie Siff). Cassie, her father Oliver Sullivan (Office Space's Ron Livingston) and brother Sam (Zackary Arthur) find a refugee camp in the woods with roughly 300 survivors. A few days later, an army unit with working vehicles arrive, Colonel Vosch (Liev Schreiber) claims that the 5th and final Wave is imminent, the Others have begun to use humans as physical hosts, this is the 4th Wave. The children are being taken to safety at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, they say the buses will return to retrieve the adults, Cassie is separated from Sam, and witnesses the army massacring the adults, including her father. Cassie scavenges her way toward the base, but she is shot in the leg by an unseen shooter and passes out. About a week later she wakes up in the farmhouse of Evan Walker (Alex Roe), who saved her, they leave together and head for the base. Cassie is shocked to learn that Evan is an Other, the aliens have invaded Earth years before, he was sent as a sleeper agent and merged his consciousness into a human host. Evan admits his humanity was reactivated when he saw Cassie, he disagrees with the invasion and lets her leave, he warns that Colonel Vosch and the military are possessed by the Others. At the base, the military have used deception and technology to convince the rescued children that humans outside have been possessed, they provide them with military training, forming them into squads to go on kill missions. Sam is in a squad led by Zombie aka Ben Parish (Nick Robinson), Cassie's former high school crush, along with tough teenage girl Ringer (Maika Monroe), Dumbo (Tony Revolori) and Teacup (Talitha Eliana Bateman). While on a kill mission, Ringer removes her military tracking implant, she is registered as an Other-possessed human on the squad's scopes, the squad realise that the plan is to kill real unpossessed humans, making them the 5th Wave. Ben devises a plan, he has one of his squad shoot him and returns to base, claiming the rest of the squad were killed, then he will try and retrieve Sam, who was left behind. Ben confronts Colonel Vosch about child warriors being the 5th Wave and Cassie kills Sergeant Reznik (Coyote Ugly's Maria Bello) during her implant operation. Cassie find each other and leave to find Sam, Evan sets off many bombs and warns them to hurry before the entire facility is destroyed. Colonel Vosch and the surviving military evacuate with the human children by military aircraft, while Ringers helps Cassie, Ben and Sam to escape, just as Evan completes the destruction of the base. Ben's squad is reunited, and Cassie ponders the strength of hope as humanity's driving force for survival. Also starring Gabriela Lopez as Lizbeth, Bailey Anne Borders as Julia, Parker Wierling as Jeremy and Nadji Jeter as Poundcake. Moretz is a good choice as the teenager living in the world facing alien invasion, the four attacks of power outage, earthquakes and floods, a bird-flu pandemic and human body snatching set things up reasonably well, but the imminent fifth attack gets clichéd, I sort of went along with it, but not all of the special effects are great, it is muddled, and the ending (that may lead to an unlikely sequel) is silly, it is not boring or terrible, it is just an overly average science-fiction drama. Adequate!

Paul Magne Haakonsen I must admit that I had expected something more from this movie. But it just turned out to be a teenage movie with a layer of action and Sci-Fi elements to spice it up.As for the storyline in "The 5th Wave", well it was rather mundane and generic, although the twist as to whom The Others were was a nice one, and I had not really foreseen that one.The acting in the movie was adequate, but Chloe Moetz constantly walks around looking like a sullen and semi-depressed girl, so it was hard to take her serious in this movie.The special effects were quite good, as was the CGI. And let's be honest, this is very much a CGI carried movie, because the storyline, plot, characters and acting could only take the movie so far. So, of course, the CGI effects had to lift up the movie.This was hardly an outstanding or particularly memorable movie. And I doubt that I will return to watch this movie a second time.

davisnola I would recommend this film to anyone seeking adventure, drama, and action in a film. This film is really the first of its kind it includes all types of techniques from the actors and also the fact about camera focuses on the emotions of the characters which emphasizes what the film is about and links in still with the main story line. This movie have a lot of similarities with the film "Divergent". Both movies have been based on a society that is divided into different groups. For example, Divergent society was divided in five fractions: Abnegation the selfless, Dauntless the brave, Erudite the intelligent, Candor the honest, and Amity the peaceful. On the other hand, "The 5th Wave" was divided into two groups: the normal people and people who have diseases. This movie is about four waves deadly attacking Earth, leaving every state and every country ruined. The aliens drain energy and create diseases that effected millions of people and died. The main character in this movie is Cassie. Cassie lost her mother by the disease. The Army came to take the people to the army base and that's how Cassie father died, army people gunned him and others down. The survivors was transferred to the army base on a school bus. When Cassie left the bus to get her brother stuffed animal the bus was driving off, Cassie was running trying to catch up with the bus but she didn't make it. Cassie goes on adventure to look for her little brother named Sam that was left on a bus. While Cassie looks for her little brother Sam, Sam is at the military base being trained by the military to fight the enemy. You can not tell whose the enemy or not because they all looked the same.

emil-nylander I didn't come in to this movie with high hopes. However, for the first couple of 10-15 minutes I was drawn in by the opening narration of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd wave. Then the 4th wave is announced and everything goes down-hill.Not going in to the two largest plot holes I can't help but feel ruined this movie for me. This movie has special effects that looks like they are from 10 years ago, the acting is at the best sub-par and no real tension is built up to make us care for the characters.Now to the plot holes:1. The EMP. The 1st wave was an EMP, strong enough to wipe out all electricity and render machines useless. This is all fine and when the military shows up everyone is struck by the fact that they have working cars. This is fine, perhaps they are old cars that don't have any electrical parts to speak off (for some far-fetched reason). However, then they end up at the military base where everything is lit up by electricity, and there's not a person that question this! You might say "Hey, perhaps they had protected wireing, that wasn't hit by the EMP". To that I say bullshit! Why didn't they military use electrical equipment way earlier during the 1st, 2nd or 3rd wave to greatly help out the population then?3. Child Soldiers Why would you prefer to send in child soldiers to fight the infections if you have an army? The soldiers should have alot more training, and in any scenario the children should be protected to preserve the species. Yet there's not a soul that questions why children are sent in to fight instead of soldiers? It just oozes of corruption and at the scene where they find out what the neck trackers really do and they say "they thought they could manipulate us because we're children", you just wanna go "Yes! But it's sort of deserved if you are not going to use your brains".