evan reveals his alien powers to cassie the 5th wave

The rest of the film follows Cassie’s efforts to make it to the army base and reunite with Sam, who’s been drafted into a squad of young fighters by kick-ass Sergeant Reznik (Maria Bello)-a squad that just happens to be led by Ben, now nicknamed Zombie, and includes a hardboiled Goth girl called Ringer (Maika Monroe). They take all the children, save for Cassie (who’s late to the bus because she’s retrieving Sam’s teddy bear), to the base and she witnesses a melee in which the adults, including Oliver, are mowed down by the soldiers-the result of Vosch’s revelation that the fourth wave involves the aliens taking over human hosts and using the bodies to kill survivors, and the camp residents attempting to escape before they can be tested for alien control. They decide to decamp for a survivors’ camp, which provides a rustic oasis until troops from a nearby Air Force base led by Colonel Vosch (Liev Schreiber) show up.

The third is a virus that carries off large numbers of people, including Cassie’s mother Lisa (Maggie Siff), though the other Sullivans remain immune to its effects. The second unleashes earthquakes and tidal waves in some pretty weak CGI. The first eliminates all terrestrial power, sending cars crashing into each other and planes falling from the sky and ending electrical service and telecommunications entirely. The unseen aliens, who are soon dubbed (rather unimaginatively, “The Others”), launch a series of calamities, or waves, designed to eliminate humanity.

Cassie’s darling little brother Sam (Zackary Arthur) is fascinated, but her dad Oliver (Ron Livingston) is considerably less sanguine about what it portends, and it turns out he’s right.

Less ambitious and pricey than “The Hunger Games” or the “Divergent” flicks, this initial installment of Rick Yancey’s ongoing trilogy about an alien attack on earth plays like a Disney Channel version of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” or “The Invaders,” the sixties Quinn Martin ABC potboiler inspired by it.Īfter a prologue introducing Cassie Sullivan (Chloe Grace Moretz) as a typical Ohio high schooler infatuated with campus football star Ben Parish (Nick Robinson)-who, of course, barely notices her-the world abruptly changes with the arrival of a huge spacecraft circling the globe but conveniently stopping right above the Sullivan home. Another weekend, another movie adapted from a young-adult novel about a dystopian future in which a spunky teen heroine learns to fight her oppressors.

Evan reveals his alien powers to cassie the 5th wave