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Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Jessie T. Usher, Bill Pullman, Maika Monroe, Sela Ward, William Fichtner, Judd Hirsch, Brent Spiner, Patrick St. Esprit (more)VOD (3)
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We always knew they were coming back. After INDEPENDENCE DAY redefined the event movie genre, the next epic chapter delivers global catastrophe on an unimaginable scale. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens' advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring our world back from the brink of extinction. (20th Century Fox)
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The whole Independence Day: Resurgence felt a little lame. The first hour is downright boring and extremely rushed, a lot of things happen and a bunch of new characters are introduced, but those things aren't very important or spectacularly executed and you care less about the characters than you do about the Namibian regional elections. It's nice to see Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum in action after all these years, but it's impossible to say that their presence makes the second Independence Day a better film. If they thought we'd applaud the excitement of seeing a heroic president and a likeable nerd save the world years later, they miscalculated. Independence Day really isn't about the characters, so there's not much point in revolving around them for an hour. It's boring. The action does kick in in the second half, but honestly Roland Emmerich has made more interesting stuff, and pulling a Chinese big city and then dropping it on London no longer impresses in the blockbuster universe. This and the aerial battles and the finale on the ground are fine, but none of it is interesting enough to help the film get out of the "pretty OK summer sci-fi washout" box. Unlike the first film, there's a woeful lack of wit, workable pathos, and most of all, those one-dimensional but still likeable heroes you'd root for. Here, you have either anonymous characters bullshitting or quite effectively but not extravagant action. It doesn't hurt in the cinema, but I'm looking in vain for a reason to see it a second time.
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The trailer has twice as much power as the film itself. I was very annoyed that instead of walking and attacking aliens there were fighter jets like in Star Wars, which I don't like. I didn't feel any threat or danger, the visual effects, though spectacular were not breathtaking, the music was unremarkable, nobody died classically and I couldn't say I was too entertained either. Disappointing and pretty much a bummer. 40%
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I only regret three things - that the writers didn't pay as much attention to the new characters as their colleagues who wrote Star Wars: The Force Awakens, that the film is not longer (this could have solved the first problem) and that Will Smith did not want to, although he could have easily done what William Fichtner did. That’s too bad. Otherwise, the second Independence Day is exactly what I hoped it would be. Monstrous, funny, surprising and knowingly simple, with the promise of an even more monstrous third installment. I won't blame Roland Emmerich for not using miniatures, but everything is digital, because if everything could have been done digitally twenty years ago, he certainly wouldn't have bothered to build a plaster white house. In short, times have moved on, and during 2012 he figured out that he can do absolutely anything he wants to Mother Earth. And so he does it to her, too. Of the returning cast, no one disappointed me; on the contrary I was very pleased with Brent Spiner, who was given much more space than I had hoped for, and of course Jeff Goldblum is a classic and his scenes with Judd Hirsch still have that hundredth of a second comedic timing from years ago. ___P. S. The film is actually in the same position as its soundtrack, which consists of completely new but somewhat familiar music by Kloser and Wanker, in which one can hear hints of the well-known Arnold motif here and there as time passes, which returns in full force only in the last quarter of the album. And then it's regular Independence Day with everything that it encompasses.
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Emmerich remakes his own work while managing to rip off about ten other films, sprinkles in cheesy lines, pathetic speeches, and huge monumental action that casually outdoes every orgy of destruction from any action film of the last three years (which is a major asset!). It’s really just 1990s stuff. But! Christ, did the first half-hour of introducing new characters really have to be that long? And the callous treatment of protagonists from the past? At a time when the studios allow 140 minutes for whatever, Emmerich's two hours are too tight, and his weakness is shown to be the lack of finesse in his shortcuts. But the monumental epic wins in the finale. Although it’s tight and quite ineffective, I've forgiven Emmerich for worse things. PS: When I want to think back to it two days later, all I can pull from my memory are high-five planets and new interplanetary ships.
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African dictator, our hero! I saw the dubbed version (almost everybody from part 1 was in it again!) to enhance nostalgia and it worked. The president is a crazy master chef, like in part 1, even though this time his speech is less impressive. On the other hand, it’s the typical sequel horse-shit where the catchphrases from part 1 are repeated and the main tough guys’ kids continue in their footsteps. Remember the president’s little girl? Of course she’s a gofer in the White House and in the end gets into the fighter cockpit and kicks ET ass. Emmerlich makes the aliens return in a bigger ship than they had last time, with stylish destruction that he didn’t take so much care over than he used to. Bored of destroying historical monuments? Is he? Wil the planet get destroyed next time? In acting terms, it’s Pullman who makes the movie work and Jeff Goldblum is good, but his Levinson is already a hero and no longer a cable guy, so it doesn’t come across so funny. Great visuals, beautiful battles, but could have been less confused. The white ball is super. Funniest moments: homosexual death + William Fincher promotes + financial auditor with a gun. The finale in the desert is a feast for the eyes. I enjoyed it.
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