When Earth is attacked by aliens, there is a sequence of waves of destruction to annihilate the population. The aliens drain the energy and create diseases and natural disasters. The teenager Cassie Sullivan moves with her family to the countryside, but when her mother Lisa dies, her father Oliver decides to go to a refugee camp with Cassie and her young brother Sam. Out of the blue, the army comes to the camp to transfer the survivors to a military base. They transfer the children first but Cassie misses the bus where Sam is. She learns that the in the 5th wave, the aliens have assumed the human form and she witnesses the military executing the civilians in the camp including her father. She flees and now she begins her quest to find Sam. Meanwhile the teenagers and children are trained by the military to fight the enemy. But how to know who is human and who is alien? Four waves of increasingly deadly alien attacks have left most of Earth decimated. Cassie is on the run, desperately trying to save her younger brother. Review: I actually found the concept of this movie half decent, and the director covered a lot questionable aspects of the plot but boy, was it boring. Now that they have put the Hunger Games to bed, they kick off another franchise about a girl being a "one woman army" fighting for the nation, trying to save mankind but Chloe Grace Moretz, who plays the leading role as Cassie, was definitely not a convincing warrior. The movie kicks off, showing Chloe living a normal life with her loving parents and her little brother but when a strange looking spaceship turns up, out of nowhere and takes out there electricity and starts to attack the humans, everyone starts to question who to trust. As the Aliens can take human form, everybody doesn't know who is human or not, so the army come up with a special helmet which can tear them apart. The only problem is that the helmet doesn't work on adults, so the army split the adults from the kids, and run there tests and prepare them to take out the Aliens. Whilst getting on the bus, with her younger brother to the armies colony, Cassie has to turn back to get her brothers teddy bear, which makes her late for the bus and leaves her stranded in the woods. She then witnesses life changing events which change her life, and her home town for ever, so she has to quickly learn how survive by herself. After a while she teams up with another teenager who is also stranded, and they battle to get to the colony were Cassie's little brother is. They soon work out who they can trust and they fight against the human formed Aliens to save mankind. For a 2 hour movie about Aliens destroying humans, the action was pretty poor and Cassie started to get on my nerves. A lot of the action is filmed in the dark, so you can't really see what is going on or who is who. On top of that, the script was poor and there is way too much footage of them running around in the woods. They obviously left the ending open for a sequel because there was no conclusion to the whole Aliens vs. Humans fiasco but it's not a movie that I will be rushing to see when it's released. Disappointing!<br/><br/>Round-Up: A few of Chloe Grace Moretz, 19, movies have been disappointing because she has been the wrong actress for the role, like the awful Carrie remake, Dark Shadows, Hick and Hugo but she was absolutely brilliant in the first Kick Ass movie, which pushed her to stardom. The second Kick Ass was disappointing but loads of new projects started to come her way after her performance in the first movie. Personally, I don't think she was the right choice for this movie, because of the drastic change from a family girl to a Warrior on the run, just didn't suit her. After listening to all of the hype surrounding this movie, I must admit, I am really disappointed with the outcome and it seemed like a lot of fuss about nothing. The movie was directed by J Blakeson who also brought you The Disappearance of Alice Creed, starring Gemma Arterton. His lack of experience behind the camera is noticed in this film and some of the disastrous moments looked like he was using toys. I just hope he does better with the sequel, if he wants to kick off a successful franchise. <br/><br/>Budget: $38million Worldwide Gross: $110million<br/><br/>I recommend this movie to people who are into their action/adventure/sci-fi movies starring Chloe Grace Moretz, Matthew Zuk, Gabriela Lopez, Liev Schreiber, Nick Robinson, Maggie Siff, Maria Bello and Ron Livingston. 3/10 If you are looking for an alien invasion movie that is like, well, a cross with Twilight then this is going to be a movie for you. Okay, that may sound a little odd but seriously, halfway through the movie when our heroine (Cassie Sullivan) meets up with Evan Walker (and sorry about the spoiler but I have to mention it), whom we discover is one of the others (gee, really intelligent name for a race of aliens – obviously they were trying to create some mystery around them), he initially wants to kill her, that is until he fell in love with her. Seriously, that was so Twilight, well, not really because Twilight is mostly the vampire telling his beloved how it won't work out, while in this film his entire view of life was completely changed simply because he looked at her through the scope of a rifle. Seriously, that isn't how love works, at least in the real world, especially when we are talking about two races coming into contact with each other.<br/><br/>I guess this film (and the book it is based upon) is trying to help us see what it was like from the viewpoint of the conquered as opposed to the conquerors. Mind you it isn't that subtle, especially when one of the characters attempts to undermine the alien's argument about invading a planet and killing off the inhabitants because, well, they need it, by claiming that humans have never done such a thing. Fortunately the alien points out that humans have been doing that for centuries, and as it turns out the shoe is now truly on the other foot. Mind you, if we are going to mimic reality in this scenario then the humans can't win because, well, the inhabitants of the continents that we colonised didn't win (well the Indians, and the Chinese did, but then again they had a superior technology to that of the Native Americans and Australian Aboriginies – and weren't wiped out by disease).<br/><br/>So, where does it leave this film? Well I can't say that it was really all that entertaining. Sure we have a huge alien craft flying over the world which looked suspiciously like the craft out of District 9. We have cities being obliterated by tidal waves, but then it basically degenerates into a film where a bunch of kids have been recruited into the army so that they can fight back against the aliens, and Cassie wandering around the woods trying to rescue her brother. Sure, there was a twist, but I pretty much worked it out right from the beginning, especially since a random character says something that pretty much blows everything out of the water.<br/><br/>It sort of ends pretty abruptly as well, but I have since discovered that it is based on another one of those young adult sci-fi books, though considering where Divergent and Maze Runner is heading I don't see any potential whatsoever in the continuation of this film beyond what I have seen so far. Personally, if I want to go to sleep then I have a pretty decent bed in my own house. Director J Blakeson…might be making franchise bait but he exhibits a relatively restrained reliance on spectacle, and the screenplay by Jeff Pinkner, Susannah Grant and Akiva Goldsman is light on the aphoristic earnestness that bogged down the most recent Hunger Games, or last year’s Goldsman-penned Insurgent.
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