The 5th Wave Review 2016 Movie

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...

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