It has a few predictable plot twists and feels like it stole some ideas from other franchises, but it is generally a good film and I found a number of things to enjoy about it.Ĭhloë Grace Moretz plays lead female character Cassie Sullivan – a teenage girl thrust into the apocalypse when her biggest problem the previous day was catching the attention of Ben Parish (Nick Robinson), high school jock and general cutie. It has extremely low ratings on both and I can’t understand why after seeing it. Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb has been really mean to this movie. It’s been shaky at times but that was clearly either because the movie was done so badly (like Vampire Academy, but since that has become my guilty pleasure I won’t say too much), or the fans couldn’t really care very much (Beautiful Creatures, which I won’t watch, because I hated the book) I guess that speaks as highly for the content of the YA adoptions as it does of its fans. During the vampire craze the only vampires that really made it onscreen was the bunch from Twilight. I’m really still quite surprised dystopian / YA is making it on to the big screen. Cassie is on the run, desperately trying to save her younger brother. Plot: Four waves of increasingly deadly alien attacks have left most of Earth decimated.
