The Rick Yancey books may be involving and read well – their popularity with the younger set certainly suggests so – but played out on film, the construct, the same kind of characters we’re beginning to see in these young teenage fantasy thrillers with nicknames such as Teacup, Dumbo, and Zombie in lieu of real names and the easy predictability of all the outcomes make this new addition to the Young Adult movie genre feel annoyingly routine. With an inconclusive fade out designed to hook and cinematically reel you in – it feels like the end of a chapter in the middle of a book rather than a whole novel – you’re left feeling somewhat cheated and worse, caring even less. Taking its cue from the popularity of the Twilight saga, The Hunger Games, and the Divergent series, the new Young Adult, disaster/sci-fi thriller The 5th Wave is the first of an expected three-part adventure.
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