orzel-w
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 Posted: Wed May 04, 2016 3:51 am Post subject: The 5th Wave (2016) |
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<<CONTAINS SPOILERS ALTHOUGH I DON'T KNOW HOW I COULD POSSIBLY SPOIL ANYTHING ABOUT THIS MOVIE>>
I found this in a review posted on Netflix:
| Quote: | | The Fifth Wave continues the wave of young adult survival thrillers, as exemplified by The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner, Divergent, etc. But be prepared if you go see it...this one is the weak sister of the group mentioned above. |
Another review summarized it quite succinctly:
| Quote: | | It's like Twilight for aliens. |
It's another attempt at launching a franchise appealing to the teen audience, meaning there's no resolution by the end of the movie and there are no significant intellectual challenges, other than wondering about those plotholes the movie doesn't bother explaining.
Aliens wish to take over Earth as unaggressively as possible...
Wave 1 is a worldwide electromagnetic pulse that fries everybody's iPhones and plunges us into the next Dark Age. (Okay, it also disables all other electrically operated devices and machinery.)
Wave 2 is a series of earthquakes, floods and tidal waves.
Wave 3 is a modified avian flu pandemic that kills all but a small fraction of the global population.
Wave 4 is when the aliens go boots-on-the-ground; human boots, that is, because they know how to take over human hosts to do their bidding, so you can't tell who's who, and you don't have to commit much of the budget to sfx.
Wave 5 is the recruitment of juvenile Earthlings to hunt and kill off the remaining humans. The kids get to call each other by cool nicknames (Zombie, Nugget, Dumbo, Ringer) like the grownups do in movies such as Top Gun.
You've got your teenage female left to her own devices (Ron Livingston plays her short-lived father, who dies with his left eyebrow still raised) following the implementation of Wave 4. She's rescued by a somewhat older hunk who awakens her hormones when she later catches sight of him bathing in a lake. Turns out he's a "sleeper agent" for the invasion. Coincidentally, his earlier spying on the heroine in the woods had worked complementary hormone-stirring in him that mitigates his alien proclivities. (Catch the Twilight element there?)
And so it goes, incorporating plot elements that are obviously selected to minimize the necessity of sfx or mental exertion.
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WayneO
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