2016 · action · sci-fi · thriller
The 5th Wave (2016)
Directed by J Blakeson1h 52m2016
16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.
Our read: The 5th Wave (2016) (2016) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · sci-fi · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured action / sci-fi, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
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