evan tells cassie that hes an alien cassie finds out the 5th wave

The second wave causes earthquakes and tsunamis, killing over half of Earth’s population. The first wave cuts out electromagnetic waves, electricity, cars and everything of that sort, leaving the world in darkness and without power.

We’re rushed through the events, and I felt bad for people who hadn’t read the book previously, as the story is portrayed in a way that’s hard to follow.īasically, Cassie’s world has been taken over by an ominous spacecraft hovering above the United States, and the presumed aliens have a five-wave plan of destroying the human race so they can inhabit the planet (hence the title, The 5th Wave). Director J Blakeson doesn’t move carefully through the scenes instead he jumps from one plot point to the next, barely giving the audience time to piece two and two together. From this point, the film backtracks to chronicle what led to this moment. We see Cassie (Moretz) running through the woods, introducing an intense tone in the first 30 seconds. The film opens with a scene from the middle of the story. Unfortunately, the adaptation chose a different path. That’s a common issue in novel-to-film adaptations, but I knew that the only way this movie would be successful is if it followed the plot exactly, since the story of the original book is intricate and requires many details to make sense. But even with those fans going to see it, there’s the underlying problem of the movie barely following the book. The movie, however, I was unimpressed with.Įven with a top star like Chloë Grace Moretz in the central role of Cassie, I could tell just from the trailer that this movie wasn’t going to draw a huge audience outside of the book’s fanbase. Although this dystopian trope in YA novels is becoming increasingly unoriginal, I took it upon myself to give this new author a chance by reading the book and then going to see the movie.

This series focuses on aliens coming to earth and taking over. The movie takes place in a post-apocalyptic era, with most of the story told in the first-person by a 16-year-old girl (you’ve seen this plot before, think The Hunger Games or Divergent). By Courtney Ravelo The 5th Wave is an adaptation of a 2013 young adult novel by the same title - the first in a trilogy by author Rick Yancey.

Evan tells cassie that hes an alien cassie finds out the 5th wave