Director: J Blakeson
Actors: Chloë Grace Moretz, Matthew Zuk, Gabriela Lopez, Bailey Anne Borders
Plot: Four waves of increasingly deadly alien attacks have left most of Earth in ruin. Cassie is on the run, desperately trying to save her younger brother.
Disc Release Date: 3 May 2016
The Fifth Wave's 2160p/HDR-enabled presentation isn't in any way poor or even technically flawed, but it never rises to the level of "substantial improvement" over the 1080p presentation, which is also...
The 5th Wave...
While The 5th Wave contains no new "supplements" on the UHD disc (the commentary track is available on the UHD disc), it does offer a slick new menu system (and presumably the early standard for Sony UHD...
'The 5th Wave' in 4K. Review in 3, 2, 1...The 5th Wave takes a perfectly good end of the world idea and squanders it by quickly devolving from gripping premise to melodramatic movie-of-the-week. The film,...
At its best, The 5th Wave is sort of like Red Dawn (the bad one) meets Starship Troopers meets Battle: Los Angeles meets V, a mishmash of alien invasion and teenage survival and wartime combat under extraordinary...
As the wave of Ultra HD Blu-ray continues to roll into home theaters, the YA sci-fi actioner arrives with it’s day-and-date Blu-ray counterpart, giving early adopters the opportunity to compare the differences...
The invasion lands on Blu-ray with an impressive and demo-worthy Dolby Atmos soundtrack that nicely complements the many action-packed visuals. Similar to its DTS-HD MA counterpart, imaging is highly engaging...
Audio Commentary — Director J Blakeson is joined by star Chloë Grace Moretz for an affable conversation about the production. Most of their points are scene-specific, but they offer fans some interesting...
After a highly promising and fairly captivating opening, 'The 5th Wave,' the latest adaptation of a popular YA series that spans three books, settles into a monotonous routine of predictability, following...
In spite of a highly promising opening, 'The 5th Wave' quickly settles into a monotonous routine of predictability, relying on standard tropes and conventions rather than expanding on its fairly intriguing...