Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

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Two decades after the first Independence Day invasion, Earth is faced with a new extra-Solar threat. But will mankind's new space defenses be enough? (imdb)

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Directed By: Roland Emmerich

Written By: Roland Emmerich, Dean Devlin, Nicolas Wright, James A. Woods

Starring: Vivica A. Fox, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, William Fichtner, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Joey King, Maika Monroe, Liam Hemsworth, Brent Spiner, Mckenna Grace, Beth Bailey, Grace Huang

Genres: Sci-fi, Action, Adventure

Franchise: Independence Day

Country: USA

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Stars	User	Rating
17	Barthalen	39 _19th
The meeting room is stuffy, cigar smoke obscuring the old Omni Consumer Products execs. "Moving on, franchise product C9-B. Pandering to China is progressing nicely, and we got most of the employees from C9-A to return to work. We're filling the other slots with random assets picked by our TargetDemoBot. Revenue projection is acceptable". An intern nervously asks "Won't consumers be annoyed that we're basically making them pay for a more hollow version of the first one?". Silence, then laughter.
11	BeeDub	68 _16th
The best thing I can say about this movie is that it made me appreciate the first one a whole lot more.
8	spleen	29 _12th
Any movie that tries so hard to make me nostalgic for another movie I hated, for some reason didn't work for me.
7	bowfinger	20 _14th
So, they had 20 years to write this script, and all they did was write the exact same shit movie again, and just add an extra boss fight at the end? For real? Some idiot pitched this idea, and the producers said, "Fuck it, let's do it, just make sure it hits the theaters before 4th of July." One point for every year they jerked off writing this abomination. again.
7	Superargo	10 _4th
Is this whole thing Bill Pullman's Risperdal-assisted lucid dream as he's lying in his bed in the nuthouse letting his hair and beard get really long and bushy? I vote yes. Maybe that's why his daughter's suddenly Maika Monroe and Brent Spiner's somehow still alive and everyone seems sort of ambiguously gay. This is one of the worst movies of the year but it did allow me to cross "See a Charlotte Gainsbourg movie at the multiplex" off my bucket list.
5	Koalafish	35 _4th
Its so bad, its basically its own Asylum ripoff. Even the action sucks.
4	cagedwisdom	0 _4th
I think Roland Emmerich has forgotten which of his films is which. This is clearly 2012 2.
4	frederic_g54	3 _9th
Should've uploaded Internet Explorer this time around.
4	FrederikA	50 _33rd
You know what? Fuck it... It wasn't half bad. Moronic, sure, but (perhaps helped by the less-than-two-hour running time) inoffensively so. And I got immense enjoyment out of imagining, that Pullmann actually was supposed to play the role straight, but turned up drunk and disillusioned by by the current state of his career, looking like that, every day, until they finally replaced him with a cleanshaven cgi stand-in.
4	Paxton	37 _7th
Three word review.
4	joel-w-m	2 _1st
Nothing wrong with a big, brainless sci-fi (see its predecessor) but it's got to have at least some dramatic weight, be decently acted, have a character to care about as well as some good one-liners. This film fails on almost all counts: The exposition and pep talks are beyond cheesy, the performances often bad, the characters too numerous and forgettable (save for Drs. Okun and Isaac's cute couple) and the one-liners in one ear out the other, save for one: "They like to get the landmarks".
3	BillyShears	70 _53rd
Judd Hirsch is going to bring his meshugenah to the alien planet in part 3? Sign me up. Ridiculous fun schlock and nothing more. Bill Pullman's voice made me aware of my own mortality.
3	Gr8Googly	25 _7th
A better name would be Independence Day: Regurgitation
2	terrymac	39 _9th
I don't think the core ideas for this were particularly strong, and there were too many not-very-interesting characters. Chuck in some fairly baffling decisions and pace-killing exposition, and we have a bit of a dud. I had enough goodwill left over from the source film to get me through, Goldblum is always worth watching, and some of the destruction was entertaining enough. Hard to recommend, though, even for fans of the original.
2	auritech	24 _12th
This movie is mostly "HAY remember that movie we did 20 years ago?!" with a bunch of "This is safe for Chinese investors!" and then following every single sci-fi formula established ever. I mean, come on, why even do a movie at this point? It did well in China, I guess, if that is what they were aiming for. No stakes in this movie. You know everything that's going to happen. Take what's in your mind right now; yes, that is what happened. Good, you can move on with your life and skip this.
2	Luna6ix	60 _15th
This sequel had a long, and complicated birthing period. It was a miracle that this ever broke free from development hell. Just like the original, the movie was an empty action flick, forgettable and only entertaining on the surface, hard to even respect. Independence Day: Resurgence is like a cheap whore, hiding her ugliness behind suggestive clothing and caked on makeup, completely dead inside, but nevertheless somewhat pleasurable.
2	mwgerb	20 _8th
Some of Roland Emmerich's worst work, and that's saying something. Like a mix of Michael Bay rip-off and high-budget Asylum. Will Smith was right to run from this one.
2	glumpy_99	5 _0th
Abysmal sequel is a leaden, dead weight in every way - note the clunky exposition in the opening scenes, bland lead performances from Hemsworth and Usher, the complete waste of an unused Goldblum and a pitifully over-the-top Pullman - both actors work too rarely nowadays to be mired in dreck like this. The shoddy effects work would be amusing in a Syfy movie channel production - but inexcusable in a major studio tentpole. Spiner's scenes at least generate some energy and amusement.
2	NothingsGood	10 _5th
Change your screenwriter, change the world. Roland Emmerich is Michael Bay with Down's Syndrome.
2	philamental	19 _1st
165 million ... the same budget as Interstellar ... and they made this ... I LOVE the original as a leave your brain outside popcorn sci fi action flick, but this just doesn't hold a candle to it. I have NO problem with a sequel. This is just shit. A stripper in the last film is now a senior doctor? All our tech is now futuristic after only 20 years? A lunar labor craft that can also make taxi cab trips to earth? Plot, FX, everything ... just shit
1	Ytadel	5 _57th
"We really gonna wait for the dog?! Guess so..." Yep. Goldblum's still got it.
1	Mojo_Jojo	16 _7th
Bronze winner in the 2016 "Script that took much less time to write than the film does to watch" awards (11-14 age bracket)
1	muutanet	19 _15th
In Helsinki, Finland they opened two weeks ago a brand new Scape movie theatre. Wide leather seats, more room for feet, bigger screen, better Barco 4K laser projector, dynamic Dolby Atmos sound system through the total of 68 loudspeakers. Nice! Oh, the movie, yes, I saw this one in it. Some okay effects.
1	iconogassed	20 _7th
A relic of a more innocent time. When "the China virus" referred to paid Party propaganda and boring actors shoehorned into Hollywood movies, rather than a worldwide contagion that escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan.
1	vespera23	45 _9th
What happens when you give a special effects company millions of dollars and realize last minute you should probably write a plot. Will Smith passing on this movie was the best decision of his career.
1	EastonD	15 _16th
Oh how the tedium tapdances on my soul. The ne plus ultra of Roland Emmerich's abominable oeuvre, a piece of cinema that wouldn't even deserve a four a.m. slot on the sci-fi channel, the schlock can't even get an opportunity to spread its wings because the dance floor is smothered in long stretches of dullness. I have never championed the original, a wholly disposable bit of naught/dull as a papal bull, but that turd looks flawless in comparison. Glad to see Brent Spiner getting work though.
1	janus	35 _7th
Aging actors perfunctorily step back into the least interesting roles of their careers, while the new blood fails to make any impression at all. This will not make a dent in the blockbuster landscape and doesn't deserve to; every mass-destruction-driven summer event movie of the past twenty years has been another Independence Day where it counts, and many have been bigger, smarter, and more original.
1	Okkervil	54 _43rd
I quite enjoyed myself even if no one else did.
1	Cinema_Asia	60 _30th
Surprisingly watchable just based on special effects and action scenes alone that is if..you can ignore Brent Spiner standing around in his underwear for 3/4's of the movie. The blubbering stupid dialogue. The awkward product placement for Chinese products. The wooden Chinese actress who just seems to be some kind of prop. Liam Hemsworth is probably a better actor than Hollywood gives him credit for in these frat bro roles. Jeff Goldblum looks old and tired these days.
1	redacted	31 _9th
This is like a big budget 90's throwback film, no cynicism, attempts at rousing speeches, confused elderly fathers, out of place accountants. It's what South Park made a career out of by mocking & it's back, one more time at least. I had a huge problem with the burst of extremely basic exposition coming from the white orb during the middle of the film. That coupled with countless plot holes, really led to a loss of gravity in the immersion side of things. Goldblum & Spiner stand out, as a plus.
1	doughbaron	25 _3rd
The human race is once again facing extinction but this time no one really seems to give a shit. Decent special effects can't save such horrible acting and lazy script writing.
1	dunbar	50 _13th
My partner and I were two of four people watching this in the theatre. We wanted to laugh out loud for most of it but kept it silent to respect the other half of the audience.
1	thegreyfox	1 _0th
A putrid, leaden insult to movie-goers intelligence; chock full of ludicrous coincidences, ridiculous CGI, miraculous survival (assuming you were in the cast list, of course), and a script so monumentally pathetic that one can only assume Fitcher, Pulman & Goldblum have all gone through costly divorces recently and need to pay off their spouses. Simply inexcusable dross. If you want to create some sort of yardstick of "goddamn awful", this and "Identity Thief" are the two main contenders
1	guy piranha	25 _3rd
it comes critically close to being so bad it's good again. good riddance maika monroe. i really thought the future had stuff in store for you.
1	damil	55 _34th
I was pretty bored for most of it. There was a lot of unnatural exposition, a bunch of unfunny one-liners, and plenty of pandering to the Chinese market. It was fun to see some of the old characters, but the new characters were exceptionally bland. Most of the action scenes didn't do much for me, and I don't appreciate the CGI aliens, when the practical ones were so cool in '90s. The climax was pretty good, but I didn't like the ending.
1	ribcage	29 _9th
Takes almost everything the 1st did right and rehashes it badly. The first half is a downright bore, the characters all suck, the returning cast esp gets terrible writing, and the script overall has the pace and coherence of a scifi original. Devoid of any dramatic tension, the back half is pretty underwhelming. As a giant monster fan, I'll admit to loving the bits with the queen and even bad action can occasionally look cool when you burn a couple hundred million dollars on it.
1	chmul_cr0n	16 _0th
They should have called it "Generic Sci-Fi Movie" and let David Zucker direct it. It's like 10 movies in one. And they're all bland, tonally inconsistent and have too many characters. Mostly it's just ripping off itself and Star Wars. In the most dispassionate manner possible. It's pretty much sharknado, but with more money, better sets, costumes, effects and performances. Maika Monroe was pretty great. But she sounded like she had a weird speech impedement in a couple of "scenes"...
1	bof	22 _5th
Less a sequel than a straight-up remake, borrowing pretty much every scene from the original except without the same oomph. Disjointed, incoherent, dumb.
1	myfavchords	43 _4th
Another pointless and unnecessary film sequel. Some of the original cast is back, hopefully they had more fun than the audience did watching this movie.
1	LookJabba...	3 _14th
ID: Resurgence is one of the most unexpected and unnecessary sequels in memory. The original ID was a lot of fun at the time, but did we need this sequel 20 years later? There's no originality, it's horribly written, poorly paced and every character feels like a spare part. Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman and several other original cast members are nostalgically shoehorned in but are either underused or misused. Whilst there are far too many unnecessary new additions who either annoy or underwhelm.
1	k0g00t	45 _7th
Independence Day: Parody
1	vv238	13 _7th
There is about 5% of this script that might be made into a somewhat interesting sequel. Another 5% is reused footage from the original. The final 90% is toxic sludge that infects everything about this movie. I didn't think I could possibly hate a Roland Emmerich production more than Godzilla but here we are. This makes the original look like Star Wars by comparison.
1	JPFerguson	15 _0th
Painful. The sequel we did not need. Goldblum is charismatic as usual, but a film that does not make.

Average Percentile 17.45% from 1162 Ratings