Stonewall

It feels like with this and ANONYMOUS (review to come), Emmerich was attempting a stab at “respectability” to show he was more than the alien invasion guy; you sense that he and writer Baitz have their hearts in the right place, but this feels like a movie at least 30 years past its time (and probably would have been viewed derisively in the context of the more naff 80s “gay pride” movement). If a sanitised, straight-washed version of the late 60s queer scene in NYC is what you desperately need, you could do a lot worse, but its comical if not vaguely unsettling that Emmerich appears to liken the climactic riots to an alien attack action scene, with depictions of the carnage coming awfully close to resembling INDEPENDENCE DAY etc. Too bland and superficial to be offensive, but no real value as entertainment or history lesson.