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Independence Day: Resurgence

2016

Roland Emmerich

Jeff Goldblum, Liam Hemsworth, Bill Pullman, Maika Monroe ...

4.2

12,995

Sci-Fi. Action The film will be set 20 years after the events of the first invasion; the humans got the alien technology and they think they are ready to prevent a new invasion, but now they face a second wave of Alien invaders.

	Media	Author	Review
		Dan Jolin Empire	As spectacular as you’d hope from a sequel (...) You’ll enjoy yourself enough that you won’t even miss Will Smith (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Robbie Collin Telegraph	"This isn't just lazy, it's borderline nonsensical. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		The Independent	"I’m not going to sit here and slate the film for its linear plot, cartoonish characters, lack of realism and biblical, CGI-laden set pieces, it’s what makes it enjoyable (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Guy Lodge Variety	"This scattershot but frequently spectacular sequel sees Roland Emmerich reclaiming his title as the DeMille of global destruction"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"[It's] joyless and tedious, a reboot quite without the first film’s audacity and fun (...) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"
		Anthony Lane The New Yorker	"The first 'Independence Day' had the gratifying slap of good pop cinema, harmless and weightless; the follow-up is twice as big and half as fun"
		Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"The lackluster, at times abysmal writing wouldn’t much matter if 'Resurgence' popped visually or featured a charismatic star who could lift a movie as effortlessly as Will Smith did in the first feature."
		Tom Huddleston Time Out	"I’s all too much too fast, and the cumulative effect is like watching a two-hour trailer – more dizzying than thrilling (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"The only thing resurgent in this humorless alien mess is Hollywood's passion to charge us more and deliver less (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"
		Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"As wilfully cheesy and cheerfully nonsensical as the first (...) doles out the action and effects work in carefully calculated, incremental doses, which give the film a cumulative tension."

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