Another week, another plucky teenage girl with the fate of the world on her shoulders, buffeted by smoldering glances from two strong, yet sensitive, young men. Adapted from Rick Yancey’s 2013 novel, The 5th Wave stars Chloe Grace Moretz as Cassie Sullivan, a high school student whose world is upended when aliens invade. If that sounds tantalizingly like a retread of the sci-fi blockbuster that Moretz’s character headlined in Clouds of Sils Maria, the new film is both more engaging and just as generic as that movie-within-a-movie. Director J Blakeson (behind the camera for the first time since 2009’s drum-tight The Disappearance of Alice Creed) 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.
Cassie is the kind of girl who gets home from a party and ducks her head around her parents’ door so they know she’s made curfew. Her Dad (Ron Livingston) gives her an appreciative thumbs-up, and she goes to say goodnight to her little brother (Transparent’s Zackary Arthur) by serenading him to sleep. The idyll is short-lived. Everything changed, Cassie tells us in a voiceover, when an alien craft appeared in the sky.
When the bird flu hits, Cassie’s best friend is quarantined at the local football field, never to be heard from again. Soon the family is strapping packs to their back and abandoning their house, which seems to be by-the-course in movies like this, though surely it would be most people’s last move. They lob in to a nearby campsite turned tent-city, where Cassie’s father gives her a gun. “Nowhere is safe anymore”, he tells her.
Cassie is the kind of girl who gets home from a party and ducks her head around her parents’ door so they know she’s made curfew. Her Dad (Ron Livingston) gives her an appreciative thumbs-up, and she goes to say goodnight to her little brother (Transparent’s Zackary Arthur) by serenading him to sleep. The idyll is short-lived. Everything changed, Cassie tells us in a voiceover, when an alien craft appeared in the sky.
When the bird flu hits, Cassie’s best friend is quarantined at the local football field, never to be heard from again. Soon the family is strapping packs to their back and abandoning their house, which seems to be by-the-course in movies like this, though surely it would be most people’s last move. They lob in to a nearby campsite turned tent-city, where Cassie’s father gives her a gun. “Nowhere is safe anymore”, he tells her.
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