Review - Independance Day - Resurgence.

Independence Day - Resurgence

Director : Roland Emmerich

Staring : Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Jessie T.Usher, Sela Ward, William Fitcher, Brent Spiner, Judd Hirsch, Rain Lao and many other awesome people.

Writers : Nicolas Wright, James A. Woods and many others.

Rating : 12A.

 

Plot : Twenty years after the nasty aliens first blew up all the monuments on the planet Earth they return to finish the job. Only this time, their ship is even bigger...

 

    Right, first off, no spoilers here, so read if you wish, but I won’t spoil your party.

     Independence Day was a huge hit and a film that burned its way into our memories by blowing the crap out of everything it could. It blew up the White House! It blew up Paris! It blew up here! It blew up there! BOOM!

     Seriously though, the original had a lot of explosions and it gave us a visual treat during the first few years of the major cgi generation. They did incredible things and we gobbled it up, but perhaps I have to step forward and say that it wasn’t that great a film. A decent mindless blockbuster? Yes! Certainly. A great movie? Maybe. But it was really stupid. It even had the city blowing up and people dying in their millions and yet they still wanted us to cheer when the dog avoided being burnt to a crisp? Meh. Stupid.

     So, there has been a lot of talk about the sequel lacking the heart of the original. Well, not sure I agree. Certainly it isn’t quite as good, but I think mainly that’s because it is an act we have seen before. Sure, the alien ship is bigger and sure, the cast have a few younger faces to fill in the action, but it is basically the same model. Resurgence really doesn’t do anything that the first one didn’t.

     The effects are great and the cast do well. It probably does miss someone with the presence of Will Smith, but the young actor that plays his son, Jessie T. Usher, does a good job and I felt Liam Hemsworth backed him up in terms of risk taking and rucking. Goldblum is always great to watch and Pullman is excellently supported by his beard.

     Independence Day – Resurgence is a good film that works well within the time it has and the story is a logical escalation of the original plot. And though it may not have blown me away it did control the running time and the effects were very cool. Also, the 3d was worth seeing it in too.          

     I enjoyed Independence Day – Resurgence. It was an entertaining romp without setting the world on fire, at least, not in terms of in the auditorium. Everything blew up on the screen, obviously.

Independence Day - Resurgence – 7/10