Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring our world back from the brink of. That kind of formula just doesnt seem to work as well for these times, so Independence Day: Resurgence didnt do nearly as well as Independence Day. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens’ advanced and unprecedented force. But, after the initial excitement, the story rapidly runs out of steam, leaving the final moments of this curiously unmemorable film sounding more like a plaintive request than a promise (despite hints of a second sequel set in space). Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. Giant skyscrapers are upended and dropped like matchsticks on an unfortunate London while a 3,000-mile wide mothership attaches itself to Earth, glomming onto the planet like some ghastly space wart. In the opening, spectacularly destructive invasion sequences, Emmerich reliably delivers. Action heroics are provided by Liam Hemsworth, the latest in Australia's apparently inexhaustible supply of toothy Hemsworths, and newcomer Jessie Usher (as the grown-up son of Smith's flyboy hero), who play fighter-pilot jocks with a thinly sketched grudge against each other. Set two decades after Earth's triumph over the aliens, it sees David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum), scientist hero of the original, now promoted to head of Earth Space Defence, though he's nervously scanning the skies for what he believes is an inevitable return visit. But for every franchise-reviving hit ( Jurassic World), there's a massive flop ( Terminator: Genisys), and sadly despite some thrilling visuals, Resurgence turns out to be a strangely underpowered damp squib. Written by Roland Emmerich, Dean Devlin, James A Woods, Nicholas Wright, and James Vanderbilt. It is a sequel to the 1996 film Independence Day.
Given Hollywood's mania for ancient blockbuster revivalism, it was inevitable that our interstellar invaders would finally pay a return visit. Independence Day: Resurgence is a 2016 American science-fiction movie about humanitys defense of Earth against the aliens that attacked 20 years before. Twenty years after Independence Day established Roland Emmerich's disaster-movie credentials and launched Will Smith into the superstar stratosphere, the director produces a belated sequel in the hope it will emulate its predecessor as one of the biggest hits of the 1990s.