She might be compelled to shoot in what she thinks is a kill-or-be-killed scenario, but she’s also troubled by her actions. There, she finds a man holding a gun but begging her not to fire her own weapon. When we first meet protagonist Cassie Sullivan (Chloë Grace Moretz), she’s running through the forest, then making her way cautiously through an empty convenience store. Sony has snapped up the rights to all three. In print, The Fifth Wave is the first book in a trilogy, with the final installment set to be published in mid 2016. Should the target market warm to it - and given the recent trend, that’s certainly possible, albeit with more modest success than its predecessors - a spate of sequels is likely. A dystopian premise, plucky heroine, and potential love triangle combine in a movie that’s as generic as it sounds, complete with a just-as-standard alien invasion plotline thrown in. Shades of those four features colour this J Blakeson-directed feature, his second after 2009 thriller The Disappearance of Alice Creed. It feels padded, its focus on establishing a springboard for future sequels rather than satisfactorily exploring its own narrative Retracing the footsteps of Twilight, The Hunger Games, Divergent, and The Maze Runner series, it joins the ever-growing list of efforts keen to jump on the teen-focused franchise bandwagon. In adapting Rick Yancy’s young adult novel of the same name, the film also rides another wave. A series of attacks against humanity fuels The Fifth Wave, with the earth’s populace struggling to survive an electronic pulse, natural disasters, avian flu, and, finally, the systematic picking off of all the stragglers left behind.
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