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1. #Will there be a sequel to independence day resurgence movie#
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#Will there be a sequel to independence day resurgence movie#

In trying to vastly one-up the first film’s famous "White House destruction" shot, the movie instead ends up being incoherent.Īt one point, the spaceship - 3,000 miles in diameter! - seems to be destroying Beijing, ripping skyscrapers from the ground up into the sky, sucking people along with them.īut then it almost immediately starts dropping those skyscrapers on London? And the last buildings we see fall to Earth are the Petronas Towers from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia? Plus, once the aliens show up - presaged by a mysterious, spherical ship that seems to have no hostile intentions (more on that in a bit) - they immediately begin destroying the Earth in ways meant to be awe-inspiring but are instead quite confusing. (I have no idea what the divide between Dylan and former pal, Jake, played by Liam Hemsworth, is supposed to add to the film.) They suggest certain character beats that are either paid off in the most perfunctory manner possible or not at all. Related The movie Independence Day teaches us that victory is more important than principles ( Will Smith, for example, passed on reprising his character, but Jessie T. All you have to do to set that up is say, "Remember those aliens we fought off back in 1996? Well, they’re on their way back!"īut Resurgence spends roughly its first half-hour checking in with the handful of characters from the first film who returned for this installment (namely Bill Pullman as former President Thomas Whitmore and Jeff Goldblum as David Levinson), as well as a bunch of new characters, who are mostly the children of the first film’s heroes. I know this new movie will be about humanity fighting off aliens sooner or later. 1) How does an alien spaceship drop seemingly all of Asia on London? Look out for the continent that’s about to fall on you, London. So let’s talk about the six questions I had while watching this movie - and beware: I’m going to spoil this thing, because it’s the only way to explain why it's so bad, and doing so will hopefully destroy any desire you have to see it. All it cares about is making as much money as possible.

Everything about it feels as if it just doesn’t give a shit about the audience watching it or the people who made it or even the fact that it’s unspooling before us. Independence Day: Resurgence is the worst kind of bad movie: one that seems indifferent about its own existence.

#Will there be a sequel to independence day resurgence tv#

Was it when I chose to leave my home for the movie theater, instead of spending the evening watching TV with my wife? Was it a week ago, when Fox announced it wasn’t screening the film for critics? Was it two years ago, when I convinced my bosses that Vox should review major movie releases?