(The screenplay, which bafflingly took five people to write, allows him to say the words "schmuck" AND "putz.")Īdded to the mix this time is a multicultural array of young actors who do little more than run, look pretty and exchange green laser fire with aliens. They include Bill Pullman as the former President of the United States, Jeff Goldblum as the voice-of-reason alien defense expert and Judd Hirsch as Goldblum’s father, who ostensibly exists to provide comic relief but merely functions once again as a lame stereotype of an elderly Jewish man from Brooklyn. Several actors do return, however, to establish some vague sense of continuity.
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Will Smith wisely opted out of the sequel, although the original “Independence Day” is the movie that made him a superstar. There is exactly one scene toward the end, featuring a big reveal of the real enemy, that offers the sort of excitement and stakes you’re hoping to see. Major global landmarks get blowed up real good. Fighter jets engage in dizzying dogfights with speedy alien aircraft. Entire cities get sucked up into the sky and dropped back down again. Because so many movies have come along in the past two decades featuring this kind of high-tech annihilation, “Resurgence” feels like a glossy copy of the sort of blockbuster we’ve watched countless times before. You go see a movie like “Independence Day” for the visceral thrills, but here, they’re in woefully short supply. The characters are flimsy, the dialogue is stilted and the amount of destruction is ridiculous, even if that’s all pretty typical for the brand of blockbusters inspired by Emmerich's 1996 hit. It’s just dull and hollow-a massive waste of time and money. It’s not completely terrible, even though 20 th Century Fox’s decision not to screen it for critics before opening day would suggest as much. And yes, all massive summer disaster pictures are like that-especially when they come from director Roland Emmerich, returning from the original “Independence Day.” Shock and awe are his bread and butter.īut “Resurgence”-which, surprisingly, isn’t the title of a fourth “ Divergent” movie-feels even more shiny and empty than most of these kinds of films. “Independence Day: Resurgence,” the sequel you probably didn’t want or need to the 1996 smash-hit blockbuster “ Independence Day,” is all about the spectacle.
The aliens are back, and they want … more of the same thing they wanted before, maybe?
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