Working from a screenplay by Susannah Grant, Akiva Goldsman and Alex Pinkner, director J Blakeson ( The Disappearance of Alice Creed) doesn’t dwaddle setting up the premise.

You know, the story of how a plucky girl must conform to a pecking order that puts global annihilation behind deciding between two hot guys - the football hero (Nick Robinson) or the stranger in the woods (Alex Roe). I was wrong.ĭespite the strong presence of Kick-Ass star Chloe Grace Moretz as Cassie, the movie is selling the same old YA yada yada yada that made phenoms of Twilight and Divergent. I never moved on to the next book in Yancey’s trilogy, 2014’s The Infinite Sea (the third, The Last Star, is due later this year), but there was something in The 5th Wave that seemed salvageable when and if the book made it to the big screen. The protagonist, Cassie Sullivan, is an independent Ohio high school student with the usual yen for boys but without the need for some dude to define her. Why? I actually read and fractionally liked the 2013 novel by Rick Yancey that put some muscle into yet another dystopian tale of teenagers facing the end of the world.

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