Movies

We had The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, St Elmo's Fire, The Goonies to name but a few. Defining moments in movies, defining teenage angst, growing pains and young love and loves lost. Films that stand up today, not just for nostalgia's sake but because of solid acting, amazing characters and good stories.I despair for the drivel that our millennial's have to endure today in the name of cinema. If you've grown up on good films through the years then you want to avoid The Fifth Wave. Encourage your young-lings to watch something else.Chloe maybe a good actress, but she couldn't drag the film from the mire of this cliché driven plot line with shallow characters and an awfully banal story of an alien plot to take over the Earth in as seemingly clueless manner as possible.

Speaking of waves.... you know that so called 'teenagers survive doomsday and fights against a dystopian armegeddon' wave of movies and books? Just another entry into the Maze Runner, Divergent, Hunger Games, The Host.... wave.anyways Cassie is a survivalist teenager returning to her little brother who has been drafted to fight the so called 5th wave of an Alien invasion.

The first 30 minutes are really good. I'd say they failed to keep the quality up beyond that. It's like running a marathon and gassing out after mile 8. They should have kept it adult level, but rather it got a little cheesy making it a kid-level PG-ish feel. All that being said, there was still enough to keep my attention to finish up.