Marvin - The Fifth Wave (Film Review)

 

Marvin Tiller, Jr.

“The Fifth Wave”

 

The Fifth wave had me on the edge of my seat from beginning to the very end. The film sees the Human race being on the brink of being no more. There was a series of alien attacks (known to the Humans as “The Others”) that devastate and shake the planet like never before which were in the form of 5 waves:  The first wave, an EMP strike which eliminated every form of technology and things that ran on electricity; which also resulted in cars crashing into each other and buildings, and planes that were in the air, crashed from the sky. Cassie lets us know that this wave killed around ½ million people. The second wave, were in the form of earthquakes and tsunamis which wiped out the coastal cities on every continent. This wave, according to Cassie, took the lives of billions of people. The third wave, “The Others” came up with a virus that if contracted, you were guaranteed to die from it which was contracted from bird droppings. This wave killed about 97% of those that were left.  The fourth wave was when “The Others” began to make their presence known on the earth. This wave made it difficult for the remaining humans that were around to trust anyone because you could not tell who was human or who was the silencer. The final (5^th) wave saw “trained child soldiers” finishing what The Silencers could not finish in the previous wave. Separated from her family, Cassie must do whatever it is that she has to do in order to reunite with her brother whom went on the school bus, Sam. She ends up forming an alliance with Evan who is the young guy she met that could be her only hope. Being that it was difficult for them to trust each other, they end up fighting in order to survive during the fifth assault from “The Others”

Before viewing this movie, I honestly expected something that would catch my eye and this film certainly did just that. This movie reminded me of those movies that give you a feel of what the end of the world may be like. If I were watching this earlier in my life and ministry, I would be very leery of watching it because even after looking at the trailer, I was concerned about what I viewed. Now that I have grown and matured in life and ministry, movies such as these don’t concern me nor does it make me afraid of what the future will be like. Overall, the movie kept me on the edge of my seat and I am actually looking forward to hopefully seeing a sequel of the movie because it did leave me hanging.