Also, the first movie’s semi-crazed scientist, Dr. Okun (Brent Spiner), wakes from a 20-year coma – a good trick, since we thought he died last time – and starts scribbling odd alien writing. The way they accomplished that was completely illogical and contrived, but director Roland Emmerich and his cast sold the hell out of it.
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This sequel comes 20 years after the original and promises to deliver massive special effects, intense action, over-the-top adrenaline and adventure from another galaxy. It was like those old war movies, where the imperiled people rally together for one last stand, except this time it wasn’t just a few scrappy soldiers who were fearless enough to fight against impossible odds.
Just a quick reminder to you all that the movie is purely under the directions of Roland Emmerich, featuring those stars which have played an extreme role of attraction inside the movie like Jeff Goldblum, Liam Hemsworth, Bill Pullman, Vivica A.
UNFURL the flags, fire up the barbecue, and punch an alien square in the face because it’s Independence Day. resurgence!
Hemsworth says he loved Goldblum before they ever worked together and “I love him now”. The hokey dialogue lacks any memorable one-liners that will be quoted weeks from now, let alone decades, and the meandering plot doesn’t build to the kind of rousing (if nonsensical) climax that the original did.
Wouldn’t want an Independence Day-type situation on our hands, after all. That ships lights have suddenly turned on – indicating the aliens might be coming back.
The film is being fast-tracked, which means we can all look forward to recycled “Welcome to Earth” jokes for at least the next two years.
That said, there is one crucial difference: the first film took place on an Earth that was recognisably our own, yet the sequel is set in a parallel universe where victory over the aliens in 1996 has lead to twenty years of peace, thanks to the adoption of alien technology.
David Levinson (Goldblum), now the head of the Earth Space Defence initiative, is in the front line of figuring out how to tackle this vast new challenge as even bigger spaceships arrive to threaten the world with destruction. This may be much closer to reality than the hope of the first movie, but it breaks my heart.
This image released by Twentieth Century Fox shows a scene from “Independence Day: Resurgence”. The movie offers several cringe-inducing moments of attempted humor, along with a wink or two at the last film.
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Having literally just seen it at that previously mentioned press screening, it’s my sad duty to report that this film is atrociously bad.
