If golf is a good walk spoiled then it surely applies that this is a good book spoiled.
** MAJOR SPOILERS**
All the things you didn't like about this movie were probably things they changed from the book, so I'd advise reading this trilogy (there are two more books after the conclusion of this particularly titled one).
Cassie, Evan, Ben and even Vosch are all real characters in the book. Huge elements of the story were pointlessly changed or sanitized perhaps for a lower rating.
Vosch is a monster and Cassie knows it from the camp. The camp is not just a place they stumble into as a family, it's a place people have run to, it's a place where loads of people died, there's an ash pit where bodies have been disposed of, it's chillingly horrific and when Vosch arrives as the savior, he's clearly no savior.
Zombie / Ben barely survives the epidemic, he is trained by a sadistic soldier to kill, all of the kids are.
Evan is an alien, he shoots Cassie but she makes him feel something human again. There is so much more to him and to the Cassie / Evan story.
Vosch and the Others are definitely bad guys, there's no subtlety - they blow up the camp after killing all the adults and Cassie barely survives and Vosch thinks she's dead.
The implants actually can explode and kill you if you're not performing as a good little soldier.
Don't all of these things seem important? The 5th Wave was a good book turned into a weak-assed screenplay.
They will never make the other books because they screwed this up so badly. Maybe in 10 years or so we can start again?
Shame on you Hollywood for ruining what could have been a scary, ominous alien invasion story and making this lame toned down version.
I give it a 6, it could have been a 9 or 10!
** MAJOR SPOILERS**
All the things you didn't like about this movie were probably things they changed from the book, so I'd advise reading this trilogy (there are two more books after the conclusion of this particularly titled one).
Cassie, Evan, Ben and even Vosch are all real characters in the book. Huge elements of the story were pointlessly changed or sanitized perhaps for a lower rating.
Vosch is a monster and Cassie knows it from the camp. The camp is not just a place they stumble into as a family, it's a place people have run to, it's a place where loads of people died, there's an ash pit where bodies have been disposed of, it's chillingly horrific and when Vosch arrives as the savior, he's clearly no savior.
Zombie / Ben barely survives the epidemic, he is trained by a sadistic soldier to kill, all of the kids are.
Evan is an alien, he shoots Cassie but she makes him feel something human again. There is so much more to him and to the Cassie / Evan story.
Vosch and the Others are definitely bad guys, there's no subtlety - they blow up the camp after killing all the adults and Cassie barely survives and Vosch thinks she's dead.
The implants actually can explode and kill you if you're not performing as a good little soldier.
Don't all of these things seem important? The 5th Wave was a good book turned into a weak-assed screenplay.
They will never make the other books because they screwed this up so badly. Maybe in 10 years or so we can start again?
Shame on you Hollywood for ruining what could have been a scary, ominous alien invasion story and making this lame toned down version.
I give it a 6, it could have been a 9 or 10!