Moretz is an excellent actress but she is unable to give Cassie the depth that "The 5th Wave" needs.
Here, she just seems slightly put-out and sometimes super-scared. In the book Cassie is ravaged by grief and rage. Cassie's determination to find her brother is sentimentalized (so many closeups of that teddy bear). The colors are sometimes too bright for such a grim story, and the shattering of group trauma isn't present (the way it is in the opening scenes of " The Hunger Games"). Blakeson and production designer Jon Billington lie in the apocalyptic wasteland scenes: a highway filled with crashed cars, corpses piled up, orange fires raging through a dark landscape. His rifle is taller than he is.) A new member of Ben's squad, a deadpan teenage girl nick-named Ringer ( Maika Monroe, in a fun performance), challenges his authority, but is an asset in battle. The kid-soldier episodes have an inadvertent absurdity to them, especially when Ben, squad leader, yells at one of his comrades while taking enemy fire: "Stay low!" (The child can't help but "stay low". The trash-talking kid-soldiers play poker in their barracks, go through weapons training, all under the watchful eye of Colonel Vosch's hard-assed medical assistant ( Maria Bello). Here, it takes on an embarrassing "Blue Lagoon"-ish quality - especially when she peeks longingly at his sculpted torso while he bathes in a river.)īen Parish is taken off with the other kids to an Air Force Base, and put through military boot-camp for the upcoming fight against The Others. What would have happened if Cassie had been rescued by a guy who looked like Wilford Brimley? (In the book, the Evan Walker section is extremely strange and suspenseful. He also has blazing baby-blues and rock-hard abs. Cassie, determined to find her brother, camps in the woods, is shot in the leg by a sniper, and then rescued by a farm-boy named Evan Walker ( Alex Roe). The narrative splits between Cassie's journey and the journey of her high school crush Ben Parish ( Nick Robinson, believable as a boy who has been completely traumatized). Vosch, at first a savior who takes charge, has more up his sleeve, and Cassie is left to flee through the woods, clutching her little brother's beloved teddy bear. One day, Army tanks show up (the military is immune to the power outage, a fact never explained), and the intimidating Colonel Vosch ( Liev Schreiber) carts the children off in school busses to an undisclosed location, promising the panicked adults that they will soon follow. The rest of the family trek to a makeshift refugee camp in the woods (where everyone is armed to the teeth). And the fifth wave, unknown, is imminent.Ĭassie's mother dies in the plague. The fourth wave involves snipers who stalk and kill the survivors of the other waves. The third wave is a plague that kills millions more.
#Trailer for the 5th wave series#
The second wave is a series of tsunamis that wipe out coastal areas. Then come the different "waves" of attack from the aliens referred to as " The Others." The first wave is an electromagnetic pulse that kills the power across the globe. Her "normal" life disappears when a mysterious object appears in the sky over earth. On a recent trip to New York City, otsoNY spied the actress dining at Snack Taverna on Bedford Street in the West Village.Cassie lives with her parents ( Ron Livingston and Maggie Siff) and her little brother Sam ( Zackary Arthur). Her modeling career has included cover and feature shoots for publications such as Vogue, Marie Claire, and Elle. In 2014, she performed in The Public Theatre's off-Broadway production of The Library in March and April. Three years later, she reprised the role in Kick-Ass 2. In 2010, Moretz provided the voice of Hit-Girl for Kick-Ass: The Game. Her film credits include (500) Days of Summer, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Kick-Ass, Let Me In, Hugo, Dark Shadows, Carrie, If I Stay and The Equalizer. She began her acting career in 2004 at the age of seven, and her first award nomination came the following year for The Amityville Horror. The film is set for release in on 15th January 2016.Ĭhloë Grace Moretz was born February 10, 1997, and is an American actress and model. As she prepares for the 5th wave, Cassie teams up with a young man who may become her final hope, if she can only trust him. Against a backdrop of fear and distrust, Cassie played by Chloë Grace Moretz is on the run, desperately trying to save her younger brother. The film centres on four waves of increasingly deadly attacks that have left most of Earth decimated.
#Trailer for the 5th wave movie#
If the poster is anything to go by, The 5th Wave is yet another disaster movie which sees the destruction of New York City, although principal photography was actually in Atlanta, Georgia. The 5th Wave is an upcoming science fiction thriller directed by J Blakeson and starring Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson, Alex Roe, Maika Monroe, Liev Schreiber and Zackary Arthur.