OCTOBER 5TH - NIGHTMARES - THE 5TH WAVE

IMDB Summary: Four waves of increasingly deadly alien attacks have left most of Earth decimated. Cassie is on the run, desperately trying to save her younger brother. IMDB

 Tonight I watched the movie, The 5th Wave. To be completely fair and honest I read the book before seeing the movie so I might have a very different opinion than a lot of people who maybe didn't read it. This movie falls into more of an action/scyfy but it was still a thriller so I decided to include it.

This movie is about an alien race that arrives on Earth and starts taking out the human population with waves. The first wave is a loss of power, not just electricity, cars stopped working, planes stopped flying, etc. The second wave was natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes. The third wave was a disease spread through birds which killed you from the inside out. The four wave was the alien race inhabiting human bodies and killing humans. The fifth wave you figure out in the book/movie. The main character Cassie is in a constant battle to stay alive and keep her five year old brother Sammy alive. 

Overall, I loved the book. It was extremely realistic and really made you think about how it would play out if something like this were to happen. But the movie didn't quite match up to the book's greatness (are we shocked though?). The movie changed things around and I don't think it was well explained. The plot line is super confusing and complicated even with all of the explaining in the book that I felt like if I were a person not having read the book I wouldn't have understood the movie. I would love to hear someone's opinion who didn't read the book on the movie because there was a lot more they should've added. However, the movie was good for the most part, it kept you on edge and the actors chosen were great.

My Rating: 7/10