Cool backstory, guys!)īut! But! Even these kind of good-bad moments are marred by Emmerich's lack of comedic prowess, and by the way the actors deliver their lines as if they're half-guessing at them (Goldblum alternates between staring slightly off to the side and doing his science-whisper thing, and looking like he's forgotten his mantra). (Will Smith's character, alas, won't be around to help, because he died during a test-flight. But all of a sudden, old-timers like ex-president Whitmore (Pullman) and the kooky, formerly comatose alien-expert (Brent Spiner) start getting psychic hints of a new arrival, and sure enough, a mothership finds its way to Earth.
SEQUEL TO INDEPENDENCE DAY RESURGENCE MOVIE
You've probably already figured out the story by now heck, there are so many screenwriters on this thing, you may even have helped come up with it: Two decades after the attacks that leveled the East Coast, the aliens have either been imprisoned or killed off (one conflict, we're told, took place in the African desert over the course of a decade, which frankly sounds like a much cooler movie than this one). That dumb-fun spirit of the original can be found in Resurgence-but rarely and randomly, as the movie is largely a clumpy, vexing miscastrophe, one that feels like it was conceived and green-lit during an overcrowded Slack session that no one involved bothered to actually read.
Independence Day: Resurgence feels like it was conceived and green-lit during an overcrowded Slack session that no one involved bothered to actually read. Independence Day laid on that perfectly calibrated fault-line between good and bad, and while it was cheese, it was the kind of well-aged cheese that you wanted to consume all summer long. And while creators Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich had a taste for the garish-slathering the movie with over-swollen music, humdinger dialogue ("You are never gonna get to fly the space shuttle if you marry a stripper," etc.), and scenes like this one-such flaws were forgivable, because you also had Will Smith cold-cocking an alien, and Bill Pullman giving his big presidential pep talk, and all kinds of cool destruction. Independence Day felt like a movie about the '90s that had been made in the '50s. This is the Independence Day sequel we were all hoping we'd get, because once we found out that Will Smith wasn't coming back-and especially when we learned that the movie wasn't being screened for critics-we knew Resurgence was never going to be able to recreate the same goony charm of the original film.īut, really-how could it? The first Independence Day was a happy little anachronism: A rah-rah tale of feel-goodery released in an age of irony a futuristic spectacle that often favored old-fashioned, classical effects over CGI and an explosion-packed action-adventure flick that paused for soapy plot-lines about the importance of family and faith. He barely gets to finish his line before everyone starts screaming, and soon, the chaos sets in: A shadow is moving across the moon! There's panic in the streets! The aliens have arrived, and they're here to kill us all!Īnd, for a few minutes, at least, Independence Day: Resurgence turns into the kind of bad movie you hoped it would be, with cars being raptured into the sky, landmarks being smooshed, and massive spaceships blotting out the sun-and all of it being greeted by mechanical, hysterical dialogue.
Instead, Pullman sloppily croaks out the words, " I came to warn you.," looking and sounding like a white-collar *Scooby-Doo *villain who's been hiding out on foggy wharf, eating peyote and tin cans. The Independence Day: Resurgence Spaceship Has Its Own Gravity Arrow
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