Independence Day: Resurgence

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    Independence Day: Resurgence
    2016

    Synopsis

    We always knew they were coming back. 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.

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    Cast

    • Liam HemsworthJake Morrison
    • Jeff GoldblumDavid Levinson
    • Jessie T. UsherDylan Hiller
    • Bill PullmanPresident Whitmore
    • Maika MonroePatricia Whitmore
    • Sela WardPresident Lanford
    • Judd HirschJulius Levinson
    • William FichtnerGeneral Adams
    • Brent SpinerDr. Brakish Okun
    • Patrick St. EspritSecretary of Defense

    Recommendations

    • 80

      Empire

      As spectacular as you’d hope from a sequel to the 1996 planet-toaster, and as amusingly cheesy. You’ll enjoy yourself enough that you won’t even miss Will Smith.
    • 70

      Screen Daily

      Resurgence doles out the action and effects work in carefully calculated, incremental doses, which give the film a cumulative tension. Even if it’s hokey and jokey, this is a loud, effects-driven piece, with a driving score. For fans of Roland Emmerich disaster movies, this both hits all the marks, while delivering nothing new.
    • 60

      Time Out London

      It’s all too much too fast, and the cumulative effect is like watching a two-hour trailer – more dizzying than thrilling.
    • 60

      The Hollywood Reporter

      The main thing consumers will be looking for from Resurgence is bang-for-buck entertainment, and that it delivers reasonably successfully.
    • 60

      Variety

      This cinematic Big Mac entertains abundantly on its own second-hand merits.
    • 55

      TheWrap

      The spaceships and the destruction are bigger but not better in Roland Emmerich‘s twenty-years-later follow-up, where only Jeff Goldblum‘s sense of humor saves the day.
    • 50

      Philadelphia Inquirer

      While the plot is dumb and the script is worse, watching aliens explode in spectacular fashion isn't the worst excuse to spend to two hours in air-conditioning.
    • 40

      Total Film

      This might have been titled ‘Independence Day: Submergence’. It’s certainly hard not to drown in the sea of CGI, with the exponential increase of pixels being to Independence Day what the Star Wars prequels were to the original trilogy.

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