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The 5th Wave
MEANRANK
45/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5589
- IMDb #5486
- Google retired #3195
- Rotten Tomatoes #4862
- Metacritic #4726
- Letterboxd #5470
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5241
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4663
- Metacritic Critics #4646
- Metacritic Audience #4511
- Criticker #4120
- Douban #2698
- Kinopoisk #5492
- AlloCiné #4407
- Trakt #4630
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 16, highest is Google on 72. Critics average 24, everyone else 49.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →After four devastating waves of alien attack have decimated the Earth's population, a teenage girl is separated from her younger brother. She is rescued by a military unit that claims the fifth wave will involve aliens taking human form. Trained to fight back, she begins to question the true intentions of her rescuers while trying to survive and find her brother in a world where trust is the ultimate weapon.
Details
- Director
- J Blakeson
- Writers
- Akiva Goldsman, Jeff Pinkner, Susannah Grant
- Based on
- The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
- Released
- 14 January 2016
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $38.0M
- Box office
- $109.9M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 1 nomination
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| Teen Choice Awards 2016 | Choice Movie Actress: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Chloë Grace Moretz | Nominee |
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