She has dirt on her face and not a trace of lip gloss. The film opens with Cassie going into an abandoned store with a gun as she scavenges for water and food. Okay, the first twenty minutes of the film aren’t actually that bad. She has such a perfect life and such perfect hair it’s not fair the aliens are going to ruin it all. The first half of the movie is told via voiceover by Cassie, who takes us through the last ‘normal’ day of her life that sees her return home from a party where she makes love eyes at Boy A, check in with her doting parents, and sing her little brother to sleep. Another young girl with the weight of the world on her shoulders set to defy all odds, yet still has enough time to shave her legs, wash her hair and have a bit of a canoodling session in the car. If I had described it correctly – aliens you never get to see, a child army, hot blonde chick in teen-romance Twilight-esq love triangle, they probably wouldn’t have been as eager.Īdapted from Rick Yancey’s 2013 novel, The 5 th Wave stars Chloe Grace Moretz as Cassie, a high school teenager left alone and on the run after aliens destroy the planet. They’re blokes so that description got their interest peaked enough to agree to come along. That’s what happened to me last night when I made my friends go see the 5 th Wave. And you know it’s double bad when you get banned from choosing movies by the time the credits roll. You know it’s bad when you apologise to your friends halfway through a movie for dragging them along.
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