Rating of
2/4
"Independence Day: Resurgence" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 06/14/19
After twenty years of peace, the Earth is once again threatened by alien invaders responding to a distress signal sent during the original attack.
They're baaack...this belated follow up to the very dumb but very fun Independence Day follows the formula of the Hollywood blockbuster sequel to the letter; the monsters must be much bigger, much badder and the script should be virtually identical to the original film's, but worse. In this instance, rather than the size of a city the alien ship is the size of a continent, so when it lands it looks like the Earth has been clamped. The "alien queen" makes James Cameron's original look like Tyrion Lannister's little sister and whenever anything huge is likely to explode or topple over, there is always a school bus full of innocent children lurking nearby ready to be crushed into oblivion. It does have its moments, pretty much all provided by the surviving cast members from the original film; namely Jeff Goldblum's affable eccentric, Bill Pullman's retired Commander-In-Chief and Brent Spiner's mad scientist. The younger generation are just a bunch of catalogue models in overalls who run around with guns in a vein akin to Starship Troopers, but without the subversiveness and black humour - which were exactly the ingredients that made it good.
Resurgence was watchable enough in that it's an amusingly banal B-Movie with plenty of action, but the tongue in cheek attitude that made the original so enjoyable is all but drowned out by the constant noise.
