Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
Picking up 20 years after the original, the same time span as in real life, is this sequel to 1996's Independence day . Quite a few names appear again this time around. We have Goldblum, Pullman, Hirsch, Spiner, and Fox to name a few. A few new names join including Liam Hemsworth. The sequel follows the same premise, aliens come to attack our planet and extinct our species. The special effects in this movie are amazing. The ships are great, the aliens look awesome (and there are different "types" in the same race which was pretty cool) and the movement looks fluid. This is about the end of the "good" in this film. More with spoilers below the cut.
Ok, so even though there are alot of familiar names in this sequel, alot of them were introduced very un-organically. It felt alot as if they were forcing these characters to return to boost the value of the film, but they just found a way to throw them in without worrying about how it would effect the story line.
The movie starts off explaining we reverse engineered the aliens technology though all the ships left behind, and the view of the future is quite impressive. We now have alien defense bases all over our solar system to prevent the re-attack that is imminent.
In typical human fashion, when a new alien race appears though a self created wormhole we shoot first and ask later. Oh will we ever learn? Now the aliens from the first film appear and start what seems to be an unwinnable war. We learn more about their anatomy and social hierarchy which was pretty cool.
Lead characters including Hemsworth's character go rouge and decide to rummage the wreckage of the alien ship we blow up in the start and find an alien orb. They bring it to the new Area 51 for examination and we find out it is here to help us destroy the bad aliens.
The battle ensues and as anyone can guess we win the seemingly unwinnable battle with an alien race far more advanced than we are seconds before the destruction of earth.
The story does tie the two films together, but that again seems a bit forced like the inclusion of original characters. The acting was fine, but nothing real impressive except for a few of the younger characters. I was truly hoping this would be like a "Tron" and "Tron:Legacy" sequel where the original looking back now sucks and the sequel was amazing. This did not fit into that category. Oh sure when you look back at the original, and I encourage you to because your memory is deceiving you, it is pretty lame acting just like the original Tron. The new version here in being reviewed is not really that much better.
If you have nothing else to rent then go ahead and pick this up. If you have anything else on the list then go ahead and pass on this unless you want to watch a crappy movie with good special effects. I'm going to go ahead with a 2/5. Ciao and see you for the next review!
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