brother is taken by the Army for care and protection. Her father and other survivors in Ohio are killed in a massacre by the army. Cassie scavenges her way through to the base to meet her 5-year-old brother, Sam. Cassie is saved from an enemy sniper by Evan Walker. Cassie falls in love with him and later learns he is an Other in humanoid form. Cassie learns that Colonel Vosch and the Army is actually the Others and the fifth wave they have planned is to use children to eliminate the rest of the earth's survivors by misleading them.She learns the hard way to trust no one and leaves him. The only thing that keeps Cassie going is the hope that she can save her brother from the "training" camp established by the Army Others . Meanwhile Ben Parish, Cassie's crush before the wave and her brother are in the same squad trained under the Others. Ben also comes to know the Others plans. Evan who follows Cassie helps her and Ben to save Sam and demolish the training facility. The Others evacuate from the facility with the intend to deploy the children as soon as possible to other cities. Ben and his squad is seen enjoying their meal with Cassie and ponders hope as humanity's driving force for survival.

original. Somehow this didn't bother them during Hunger Games or Divergent. Love triangle– except there isn't one. Ben and Cassie have one short scene in the beginning. She has a crush. How unusual for a teenage girl. And that's it. After this they only meet at the end of the movie and there is no romantic tension whatsoever. She's no longer interested in him, he was never interested in her. At the beginning we also see scenes of Cassie with her best friend, Cassie at school, Cassie with her family, Cassie playing soccer – so obviously that scene with Ben was there to simply show that she's a normal girl and to introduce Ben as a character.Similarity to Twilight, Evan as a stalker type – Yeah, for about 5 seconds in a flashback that really had to be there to show the moment he first saw her.With the exception of a few scenes, the movie only shows destruction in the US, even though the problem is worldwide– the movie budget was 38M. Enough said.The movie's cliché romantic scenesyes, but nowhere near Twilight level. Actually scenes between Peta and Gale talking about Katniss in Mockingjay 2 were way more cringe worthy than this. Also one might get the impression those scenes take the whole second half of the movie, while it's in fact about 15 minutes of screen time. Getting your gunshot wound stitched is not a romantic scene.The movie is like an AD for NRA National Rifle Association – because I guess it's a really bad idea to give your daughter a gun in a post-apocalyptic world where aliens invade the Earth.The all-white cast. Yes, I will open this can of worms. This movie dared to exclude the obligatory minor role the talented non-white actors usually get. On purpose? In the book, the first thing you'll read after the title is Hawking's quote about Columbus and Native Americans. So the casting choice could very well be a reference to that and western Europe's colonization of other countries centuries ago. To make people think that maybe screwing with other nations isn't the best idea just like H.G. Wells did in War of the Worlds. But let's hate this movie anyway, because "I see white people."So the most disappointing about this otherwise quite entertaining movie, as long as you like the genre, is the laziness of its reviewers. It looks like all the things the critics wanted to write about the YA franchise for a while were crammed into the reviews of the Fifth Wave. Therefore it gets a 10 to compensate for all the nonsense I read.

not like this is teaching your kids to have guns during all situations. get a grip, this is a movie.. Chill out.

scenes and waves of destruction are effective, exciting and grandly done. The middle section is a little slower when the training a bit like Divergent starts and the romance blossoms. The fighting and shooting are big budget action movie standard and well done considering it's kids who are doing the fighting.As the plot twists the story makes sense in it's own way and is clear enough to follow. I found it more palatable than the Hunger Games which has a rather sickening premise kids killing each other, and easier to relate to than the Divergent series which is rather monotonously dominated by fighting and training.Go see it - it's entertaining and enjoyable. Hope it does well enough to ensure the sequels are made

results of a world turned upside down are pretty well realized and the acting was fine although not a lot was asked of the cast. I think most people will like this, its action with sci fi and a bit of 1984 thrown in to make you shiver a bit. A good one. Probably intended for a younger audience, like most movies, but not a bad choice for adults who enjoy futuristic books or movies.

those who say "they've seen this all before," then I'm sure they think all sci-fi is exactly the same, all horror is the same, etc. There is humor, tension, and excitement that is well worth seeing. This movie was far better than the last two Hunger Game installments, in my view.

a Walking-Dead type feel where you can't trust anyone.Chloe Moretz was great in the main role. The only problem with that was that she pretty well out-shown the two leading men. In their defense one of them was so devastated by the deaths he went by the name "zombie".Aside from that the whole apocalypse scenario was well done and there were a couple of twists and you could pretty much see coming but they were still well done. The only problem for me was the sudden ending which resolved a few things but obviously was intended to spark a sequel.So if you like apocalypse movies and or Chloe Moretz you should enjoy it.

course. This is actually a Movie I could take my grand kids to, with the whole family, which these days is really hard to do. Either Older folks are falling asleep in their chair or the Kids are traumatized for a month with nightmares. As for the teens over 14-15? you might get an answer if you can get their heads out of their phones long enough to get more than a Shrug and a "WHAT EVER". As far a predictable??? Not to many movies out there these days that people cant have it figured out long before the end. I think its time to flush the writers toilet and bring in some new talent. ALL in ALL I enjoyed it.