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Annabel Rianne
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Sep 04, 2015 01:08AM

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When I saw the trailer a few weeks ago, I was in the same situation as you. And honestly I cannot wait until it comes out!


Otherwise the movie was great and I strongly advise everyone to see it!

I really thought the movie lacked character development with Zombie's squad and with Ben himself. With the squad I still hadn't fully figured out who was who by the end and Zombie wasn't very "zombie" like.
I thought the movie followed the book pretty well and the acting was better than I think most people were expecting, but I love Chloe Grace Moretz to begin with. I just thought there were some points that were too rushed and left some small and unnecessary plot holes that could have been easily fixed with one or two lines of dialogue. Why were they going to that camp? Why would Dumbo know where to shoot Zombie in the abdomen? Where did Ringer get that car from? How did Cassie know what the 4th wave was? Plus Evan's reasoning for loving Cassie was super insta-lovey...he saw her and knew love was real...
I still thought it was an entertaining movie and I liked it a lot more than I thought I would. The errors just felt sloppy and totally avoidable.

The movie was just like the book, with only minor details that were changed. I was very happy that it gave you the feeling of the book where it goes back and forth from one character to another.
The only thing that I would change is that we got to see more of Zombie and his squad. There was very little mention of them in the movie, and they were my favorite people in the book. The movie didn't even give you the name of the characters but if you read the book you could kinda infer who was who.
All of the Cassie and Evan parts were amazinggg!!! I'm so glad that there were a lot of those and I feel like those parts were even better than the ones from the book.
Overall it was a very good movie and hopefully we get one for Infinite Sea because it will be just as fantastic as this one.

