![]() Chloe Moretz looks as kick assed as she did back in her Hit Girl days, while at the same time showing off the more serious acting chops she's broken out for movies like If I Stay and Dark Places. ![]() It's common to re-cut trailers based on the localities said trailers are going to be released in, but no matter what territory you're watching the trailer out of, The 5th Wave still manages to look like a compelling piece of science fiction / action entertainment. You can see this in the first look clip, included below. Another interesting difference is that the first look, freshly dubbed as an "International First Look" trailer, opened with the footage of the confrontation between Cassie and a random stranger at the gas station while ending on a more ominous, emotional beat. ![]() The previous footage was a little paint by numbers in the way it laid out the basics of the plot, while making The 5th Wave look like more of a science fiction slow burn than a thrill a minute ride. Meanwhile, that first look at The 5th Wave felt a bit closer to what you would expect out of a YA adaptation. Quicker cuts, a tenser look at the five wave structure, and even some new shots of our band of teenagers training in a militaristic setting all make this new look akin to something you'd see slated for release in the dead of summer. While the old stand-bys are still present and accounted for in this fresh look at The 5th Wave, this second trailer is cut to amp up the action and suspense factors of the film. Considering how the new trailer plays compared to the old, it's not a bad way to re-enforce the message that this film isn't your typical YA project. With a second trailer hitting only two weeks after the first look dropped, some would say that Sony is trying to make a huge marketing push in the hopes that The 5th Wave will find a larger audience in its January 2016 release. After banding together with other survivors around her age, Cassie embarks on the mission of a lifetime – just as the enemy is about to launch its most important offensive. Moretz stars as Cassie, a young woman who survives four waves of an alien invasion and is about to experience a fifth while trying to find her brother. Still, undemanding teens may buy its message of youthful empowerment.Sony Pictures dropped a new look at the upcoming adaptation of author Rick Yancey's first entry in his YA invasion trilogy. To the movie’s credit, it contains several eye-popping scenes of alien-inspired devastation, and it eschews dystopian tropes for a more intimate, reality-based setting.īut director J Blakeson can’t quite maintain the film’s momentum while squaring its disparate parts, malleable story rules (weren’t all power sources destroyed?), hokey dialogue and a crisscross of often one-note emotions. These parallel story lines finally intersect but in a way that’s far-fetched, facile and a bit anticlimactic, despite some bone-cracking action. But can she trust him? Enough, it seems, to propel an unconvincing romance with the well-armed hunk. Wait, have we lost Cassie? In what seems a separate universe, she’s rescued from injury by a startlingly good-looking farm boy, Evan (Alex Roe), who becomes her kind of guardian angel. But it’s insufficiently mined in the clunky script by Susannah Grant (“Erin Brockovich”), Akiva Goldsman (“A Beautiful Mind”) and Jeff Pinkner (“The Amazing Spider-Man 2"). To that end, a “Soylent Green is people"-type revelation provides fleeting intrigue and a few twists. See more of Entertainment’s top stories on Facebook >īut it’s that pesky “5th wave” that surviving Buckeyes must prepare to battle - if they can only figure out what’s coming their way. The mayhem comes in waves: an electromagnetic pulse wipes out the world’s power and water supply, earthquakes beget disastrous tsunamis, avian flu spreads like wildfire and aliens undetectably start occupying human bodies. ![]() With two subsequent books in the series, can a movie franchise be far behind? Let’s hope not.Ī landlocked Ohio suburb is apparently the Earth’s safest place after an ill-defined alien invasion wreaks havoc on every island and coastal spot on the globe. It’s the end of the world as we know it - yet again - in “The 5th Wave,” a largely silly sci-fi action-thriller with a wobbly narrative based on the bestselling young adult novel by Rick Yancey.
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