Unlike prior dystopian efforts on the big-screen, I really liked this as a production. Also, a part of the story is Evan Walker (Alex Roe), a mysterious character who rescues Cassie, and nurses her back to health after she suffers an injury.
These include the ragtag trio of Zombie (Nick Robinson), Ringer (Maika Monroe) and Teacup (Talitha Bateman). She’s the character we spend most of the time with although we do see how Sam fares at the army base and the unit soldiers he is paired with. What’s interesting about The 5th Wave is that it is, essentially, a story exclusively Cassie’s. In the chaos, Cassie is separated from her brother, and must take a dangerous journey to find him before it’s too late. Unfortunately, the Army finds these survivors, takes their children, and in a show of force, murders the parents. They find that in a community living in the woods. Their father (Ron Livingston) takes them out of the suburb they’ve always called home, hoping to find a safer haven. The latest wave is a deadly disease that leaves Cassie along with her brother, Sam (Zackary Arthur) mourning their mother. With each wave, they eliminate more of the population. The human race quickly becomes targets of The Others, a species no one has ever seen as they launch multiple “waves” on the world. Everything changes in an instant when aliens invade her world. The heroine of The 5th Wave is Cassie Sullivan (Chloë Grace Moretz), a teenager who’s greatest worry is a boy she’s crushing on in high school.
RELATED | The Divergent Series: Allegiant – A Dystopian World of Rebels and Romance Naturally, the story follows some of the same general ideas with some sci-fi twists, but I have to say, I was more impressed with this than I originally anticipated. The 5th Wave is based on the best-selling YA novel by Rick Yancey (of the same name) and tells another story of a girl fighting and finding what will be her new normal in a dystopian world. I’ve yet again watched a young adult adaptation where I didn’t read the book first. Good intentions aside, I have a confession to make.
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