Independence Day: Resurgence

As spectacular as you’d hope from a sequel to the 1996 planet-toaster, and as amusingly cheesy. You’ll enjoy yourself enough that you won’t even miss Will Smith.

Despite all this, Independence Day: Resurgence still emerges as one of the better blockbusters of this summer, and that’s only halfway damning with faint praise. It’s a mess, but I grinned a good portion of the way through.

Fails both as a film and even as fan service.

This is a disaster by committee.

Honestly, I could watch Goldblum and Gainsbourg – two of the most quirkily sublime multihypenate artists alive – reading phonebooks to each other and enjoy the experience thoroughly, but sadly even they seem wasted here.

The first “Independence Day’’ was a lot of fun, with a great lines and cutting-edge special effects. It was much imitated, so the sequel plays like a faded, eighth-generation copy with a cast that’s shooting blanks when it comes to humor.

Emmerich rewards our patience with an impersonally massive set piece involving the usual generic stew of mass CGI-imagined demolition. The insensitivity displayed toward human life in these sequences would be galling even by Emmerich's standards, if this pitiful albatross of corporate capitalism could work up enough energy to be offensive.

Just finished watching this movie and for me and my daughter it was great. Fast paced good story lines and lots of action Not sure why the reviews were so bad because we loved it. Nothing at all wrong with the movie good cast, action and excellent storyline.

Jeff Goldblum is in this movie, I mean that is the main reason to watch it.

After seeing the criticism I ask what did people expect here? A Shakespearean play or something that ashamed the Godfather 1 and 2 movies and becomes the new gold standard? Yes it is not up there with the best movies of all times and this is an undeniable fact. However it never claims or wants to be there. Like its prequel it is B-movie inspired with all tropes, cheesiness and entertainment value. It is in the realm of enjoyable popcorn movies where you don't have to follow a huge plot (Some name this category “Turn your brains of movie”). For this it works well and when it has a weakness compared to the first in this regard then it camouflaged its weaknesses not as good. It is the kind of weaker but not garbage sequel that often happen in Hollywood or the movie industry in general. Story: It continues the story of the prequel. 20 years have passed since the conclusion. Mankind has rebuild what was destroyed and adapted the alien technology. Since they knew that another invasion will come many defense measures were put in place. Now the dreaded day has come and humanities resolve and preparations will again be put on test. Again it follows the story of the main characters in the following days. I say its a standard story and expands the lore. It is enough to kept you entertained but not enough to be praised or remembered well. They want to recreated the feeling of the first movie and it works more than it fails. I must also admit that it is weaker, less refreshing and has not the pathos. Also the cast cant keep up with the prequel and I was notice some flaws in the logic of the story (There is the argument that a movie can get away with a lot of **** if it is really engaging and entertaining). Cast: I say Will Smith missing harms the movie a bit. There were multiple rumors why. From being to expensive, to not want to star in another science fiction movie up to just timely restrains. Luckily Jeff Goldblum and Bill Pullman return to their roles as David Levinson and Thomas J. Whitmore. Bot give a good performance. The new cast with Liam Hamsworth as Jake Morrison, Maika Monroe as Patricia Whitmore and Jessie Usher as Dylan Hiller cant truly convince me. It is neither amazing nor bad. Angela Yeung Wing (Angelababy) however is really good. Brent Spiner returns as Dr. Brackish Okun and while he is better than in the prequel I still say he is misused by the script. The rest did a solid performance. In total I say there is no great misstep but also not enough to improve the rating or outstanding character performances. Presentation: Again the special effects are great and deliver a believable experience. The sets, costumes and other effects are good too and I see no missteps here. The soundtrack was neither remarkable nor bad. It enhanced the scenes and that is O.K. for me. Overall this was what I expected. It tries to capture what made the first movie a success and tries to recreating the experience. The result is a weaker but still enjoyable movie. Maybe not worth watching except you are a fan of the prequel but also by no measure a failure (Except maybe at box office as it generated not the aimed 3 times the production costs that is considered a success). It deserves however not the criticism even when it is not a great movie.

Lacked the charm and fun of the original, relying too heavily on CGI and a rehashed plot.

Independence Day: Resurrection sequel to Roland Emmirih's not-so-successful disaster film. And the sequel is inferior to the original in everything. Independence Day: Resurrection does not give anything new to the viewer, except perhaps for pictures, but also 20 years have passed. Emmirich's typecast, here's just Independence Day: Resurrection doesn't have a pretty CGI like most of his films. Independence Day: Resurrection is clearly not worth watching, it's better to watch the original.