First, I have to admit I have not read the series of “The Fifth Wave”. If I had the movie might have carried a little more weight.
Just like in the Iliad, we are introduced into the middle of the war that has been going on. We get a quick snippet of Achilles… Oops, I meant that cutie little actress Chloë Grace Moretz running around in her BDUs. Get a quick background of what a wave is and what the first four waves were. There is the standard shoot 'em up, survivors, and treachery from the bad guy aliens.
The movie ends as with the Iliad, not when the war ends, but when Hector, I mean our half-alien character, is dispatched. We are left hanging and waiting for a sequel.
You might just as well wait for the sequel and bypass this time, spending on my little brother's sequence.
For those interested in the mechanics of the movie, I have not watched the 4K version, but I doubt that it will change the story. Yes, there is quite a bit of CGI, but it is not gratuitous.
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