An average movie

Following the footsteps of Kristen Stewart, Jennifer Lawrence and Shailene Woodley, Chloë Grace Moretz decided she should also have her own franchise based on a Young Adult novel, which wasn't really a bad decision careerwise. The only point was that the whole thing turned out to be pretty weak, I'm afraid. However, I don't think that Moretz should be really blamed though. I mean, she was really charismatic and she did what she could with this material but there was not much that could be really done. Basically, the main thing that bothered me, except for the many plot-holes (how did the main character find out that the Others looked like humans? The kids were promised by the military that their parents  would come right after them. When they never showed up, why didn't they say or at least ask anything?), was the lack of development of the characters. In fact, while watching this, for some reasons, I kept thinking about 'The Walking Dead'. One of the most impressive thing about 'The Walking Dead' is that you get to see the impact the collapsing of civilization might have on our behavior and mental state. It is so well done and so convincing in this TV-show that, as a result, it is actually difficult to see some similar ideas developed so poorly in a different movie. To conclude, all the ingredients were there to create a decent tale but the whole thing was just really underwhelming and I don't think it is really worth a look. 


5/10