Independence Day Resurgence takes place 20 years after the events of the 1996 original film and the Aliens have come back to Earth, can the best efforts of David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum) be enough to ward them off for a second time.
Independence Day Resurgence is a big disappointment for 3 very key reasons:
- Firstly the films visual effects work feels very overly digital and CG based and when you look back at the original it was a mix of CGI and Models and Prosthetic effects here it all looks like a PS4 game at times and as a result you don't find yourself marvelling at the effects like you do in Guillermo Del Toro's Pacific Rim which had fantastic and very detailed CGI effects or Bryan Singer's X-Men Apocalypse which had the mass destruction but also a wide array of Mutant Powers which were great fun to watch.
- Secondly the performances all feel very flat, Goldblum feels like he's playing a parody of himself, Liam Hemsworth is given very little to work with, Jesse T. Usher is also very bland as Dylan Hiller, Bill Pullman, Judd Hirsch and Vivica A. Fox pretty much do glorified cameos and Maika Munroe comes across as a poor girls Brie Larson and it's a real shame Mae Whitman wasn't asked to reprise her role from the original which she did when she was quite young.
Going back to Hemsworth and Usher both of them come across as very poor replacements for Will Smith's character from the first film who did not return for this sequel and his absence does leave a fairly big hole in this film meanwhile Sela Ward and Charlotte Gainsbourg are wasted in their roles.
- This also ties nicely into my third problem with this film and that is the storytelling frankly it's a mess with so many characters and subplots the film has to go through it all gets to a point where the endless subplots start getting in the way of the main storyline which has a really really pathetic ending the type that feels like the cast and crew putting out a begging bowl to their audience well sorry you can all just Smeg Off as you failed to make this film good so why should I care next time.
When I came out of this film I thought of another bad sequel to a really fun first film The Matrix Reloaded which for me has to be the worst sequel of the last 20 years and this film sadly sits on that same shelf, it has bad storytelling, weak performances and artificial effects work, rent Pacific Rim or wait for X-Men Apocalypse to come out on disc don't bother with this film and I am not enjoying saying that one bit as I was really excited to see it, 1 out of 5.
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