Independence Day: Resurgence

Their Back...               (2/5)

Accolades Incude

Nostalgia Bomb!
(Get ready to see some familiar faces)

Destruction Porn
"They Love To Hit the Landmarks"

I would be lying if I said I didn't have fun watching Indepencene Day: Resurgence, the followup to Emmerich's flawed yet beloved disaster movie of the mid 90s, but pull back the shiny first layer and the film is hiding some big problems. The characters are bland (I don't think I remember anybody's name), the plot is exactly what you think (and when they try to do something new they telegraph exactly whats going to happen), and plotholes...don't even get me started on the plotholes. Couple that with some bad acting and a dead script and this movie starts to fall apart. By the end of the film I got my Humans vs Aliens fix but thats all this movie seems to offer and the studio is already set to shove a sequel down our throats.

This movie I think is doomed to live in the shadow of the original and will probably go the way of Terminator Genysis before it: a Sci-fi sequel trying to capture the original's magic but leaving all of the first's genius and commentary behind (except Independence Day: Resurgence lacks the charisma and heart). Independence Day"Resurgence won't let you down if you want to see earths second war against the locus but don't be begging for any more than that.