Movie Review: Independence Day: Resurgence has a fighting chance
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Back in the 90s, a brave new Hollywood came up with Independence Day, popularly known as ID4. The film was a smash hit for the unique concept – aliens launching a full-frontal attack on our dear planet Earth. Cut to 2016, we have the sequel, titled Independence Day: Resurgence. Does it live up to the magic of its predecessor? Is it a good enough stand-alone film?
It’s been twenty years since the alien attack and the world has changed – for the good. We now have alien tech, there have been no wars (as the President of USA tells us in a helpful voice-over) and things are looking good. All this is just the calm before the storm, a storm that begins when an alien contacts Earth’s crew on the Moon.
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Most of the crew is back with a few new ones. Thomas Whitmore (Bill Pullman) is now the former President of the United States. Scientist David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum) is now the Director of the Earth Space Defense, a united global defense program that serves as Earth's early warning system. Brakish Okun (Brent Spiner) is in a coma and... you gotta see the film to see what happens to him.
Independence Day: Resurgence knows what it is all about. The franchise adds young blood too – there’s Jake Morrison (Liam Hemsworth), Rain Lao (Angelababy) and others as fighter pilots of the ESD. Patricia Whitmore (Maika Monroe) is the former First Daughter who is now a White House employee and committed to Jake.
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Independence Day: Resurgence is a good throwback to the gritty storylines we had for Hollywood blockbusters back in the 90s. It brings back all that makes for perfect popcorn fare – distress calls, bravado, sacrifice, and long-distance romances that are abruptly disrupted because of alien attacks.
There’s not much scope for epic performances in the film. A big cast and the long screenplay leave little space for anyone to make an impact. But as in the original, Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum are still integral parts of the film.
So, who are the heroes of the film? The fighting sequences, the space-craft attack sequences. You will miss the beauty of these sequences if you watch this film anywhere but in the theatres.
Director Roland Emmerich is one of the original ‘big filmmakers’ and he gives the crowd what they have come for. Sea storms, bridges collapsing, a big bad alien chasing a school bus full of children on an aerial shot – everything that you expected is there. The screenplay looks like a hat-tip to the original.
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Independence Day: Resurgence is a bigger version of a film that was a pop-culture success back in its day. It has the fun blast-them-to-out-of-the-
So where does the movie fail? Well, the screenplay is a bit slow. A little bit more humour or even a better stylised action scene in the middle would have made the film a much better product. At a run-time of 120 minutes, it does seem a tad long. The film misses the sting and the high point that is mandatory for action-adventures.
But let’s take a moment to admire director Roland Emmerich and his team of writers, Dean Devlin, Nicholas Wright and James A. Woods for creating one of the most endearing same-sex romantic tracks in recent times between two central characters. That, my friends, is the blockbuster story in here.
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