They fly SPACE JETS and they help the construction of some laser cannon thingy on the moon, which is supposed to prevent further alien invasions. The pilots aren’t exactly interesting characters, they’re just standard fighter jocksand their scenes play out like Space Top Gun, complete with a Maverick/Iceman rivalry between Jake and Dylan. Jake’s fiancée is none other than Patricia Whitmore, the former president Whitmore’s daughter, who works in the White House but also a pilot (see a theme here?). Usher plays Dylan Hiller,the son of Will Smith’s character who is also a pilot, and Chinese actress Angelababy, who plays (you guessed it), a pilot. Brakish Okum (Brent Spiner), who are all 20 years older and are sort of taking a backseat to the newer, younger cast: Liam Hemsworth who plays hotshot pilot Jake, Jessie T. However we got back David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum), Thomas Whitmore (Bill Pullman), Julius Levinson (Judd Hirsch) and Dr. They got most of the original cast back for the sequel, sans Will Smith, who is sorely missed. It was an instant blockbuster.įast forward to today. It was fresh and new to see swarms of computer-generated fighter jets battle another swarm of alien spaceships, and it was helped tremendously by having a great cast led by the wisecracking Will Smith who spat out lines like”No, you did NOT shoot that green shit at me”. Since I loved the original cheesy over-the-top apocalyptic alien invasion movie, I was obligated to watch this one too.īack in 1996, CGI was kind of a newish thing, with Jurassic Park’s jaw-dropping dinosaurs wowing audiences just 3 years prior, and it was getting cheaper and cheaper to create bigger and badder spectacles. The thing is,nobody really asked for a sequel, and yet here we are.
#THE MOVIE INDEPENDENCE DAY RESURGENCE SYMBOL MOVIE#
“Resurgence” can’t muster a single rah.It’s the summer of sequels (when is it not?), and now we have the follow-up movie to the original Independence Day from 20 years ago. The first “Independence Day” was no masterpiece, but it was an entertaining rah-rah summer popcorn spectacle. It’s like the movie comes with its own built-in drinking game.ĭirector Roland Emmerich, who enjoys destroying Earth on screen as much as Martin Scorsese likes casting Leonardo DiCaprio, doesn’t have any new tricks up his sleeve here Jeff Goldblum’s character even makes a quip about falling landmarks as he swoops through London’s Tower Bridge in the middle of a battle scene. Remember President Whitmore’s (Bill Pullman) “today we celebrate our Independence Day!” speech from the first movie? Good, because it’s the first thing we see on screen, and anytime “ID2” backs itself into a narrative corner, a character pops up and mentions either 1996 or “20 years ago” to remind you of the first film. (Except Will Smith, who - like you - has better things to do than bother with this sequel.) The extraterrestrials’ plan is to rob the planet of its life by drilling into earth’s molten core, because that’s where the good stuff is, and it’s up to a bunch of people from the first film to stop them.
This thoroughly stupid and criminally dull sequel - which wasn’t screened in advance for critics, and it’s immediately evident why - again pits alien forces against the human race, and the five credited screenwriters almost immediately begin making script spaghetti out of what should be a relatively straightforward plotline.Īfter 20 conflict-free years, Earth is again visited by alien forces, who park a giant ship in the sky, covering most of the planet in its shadow. Watching “Independence Day: Resurgence,” you hope someone would do the same thing to your brain.
In the original “Independence Day,” an alien ship hovered over Washington, D.C., and shot a laser beam into the White House, blowing America’s greatest symbol of democracy to smithereens.
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