I was looking forward to seeing this movie after watching trailers. It turned out to be cheap-looking, confusing and boring with teenage cast and a couple of well-known good actors (Ron Livingston and Liev Schreiber) that didn't save it from the bad story and script. The dialogues sound terrible and most are completely not believable. It's a good example of a bad film that is bad starting with the story.
The main idea of a school girl saving the world from aliens, after she grabs a rifle and all of a sudden becomes a worrier without anything given how she becomes one, is beyond anything sensible. There are lots of confusing and illogical goings-on in the story. When the fifth wave comes (the alien takeover), they take full control of the territory and are now hunting the last remaining humans one by one with alien craft hovering in the air. And yet, the aliens occupy a huge military base full of helicopters and land vehicles they use disguising themselves as human soldiers. Whatever for?! People that are hiding in the woods believe these aliens are human soldiers when they come, and that's in a situation when every single human being out in the open is in danger. How can a whole military base full of human soldiers exist and these poor people not even suspecting anything? What's more is these aliens-disguised-as-soldiers take little kids to the base and train them to become soldiers to kill humans, making the kids think humans are aliens. Kids?! They must be kidding. There is also a dull love story they threw in of this hero girl and some guy living in the woods who saves her from the aliens and then turns out to be an alien himself, but so sympathetic to humans that he decides to help her in her fight against the aliens. These things are just illogical and confusing.
Don't expect to see anything that looks like an alien or great special effects or anything spectacular - the only CGI you will see in this movie is of an alien ship hanging in the air. All in all, it's probably the worst alien invasion movie I've seen since some cheap and silly 50s and 60s stuff. I could hardly wait for it to end. Not recommended.
The main idea of a school girl saving the world from aliens, after she grabs a rifle and all of a sudden becomes a worrier without anything given how she becomes one, is beyond anything sensible. There are lots of confusing and illogical goings-on in the story. When the fifth wave comes (the alien takeover), they take full control of the territory and are now hunting the last remaining humans one by one with alien craft hovering in the air. And yet, the aliens occupy a huge military base full of helicopters and land vehicles they use disguising themselves as human soldiers. Whatever for?! People that are hiding in the woods believe these aliens are human soldiers when they come, and that's in a situation when every single human being out in the open is in danger. How can a whole military base full of human soldiers exist and these poor people not even suspecting anything? What's more is these aliens-disguised-as-soldiers take little kids to the base and train them to become soldiers to kill humans, making the kids think humans are aliens. Kids?! They must be kidding. There is also a dull love story they threw in of this hero girl and some guy living in the woods who saves her from the aliens and then turns out to be an alien himself, but so sympathetic to humans that he decides to help her in her fight against the aliens. These things are just illogical and confusing.
Don't expect to see anything that looks like an alien or great special effects or anything spectacular - the only CGI you will see in this movie is of an alien ship hanging in the air. All in all, it's probably the worst alien invasion movie I've seen since some cheap and silly 50s and 60s stuff. I could hardly wait for it to end. Not recommended.