As the Fourth of July nears, satellite engineer David Levinson investigates a 3,000-mile-wide mother ship that's approaching Earth, drilling a hole in the middle of the ocean to harvest the heat of the core, which will destroy Earth's magnetic field in the process. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring our world back from the brink of extinction.
25 June 2006, USA
19 October 1988, Los Angeles, California, USA
2 May 1979, Wichita, Kansas, USA
21 July 1971, London, England, UK
1 April 1959, Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
27 November 1956, Mitchell Field Air Force Base, East Meadow, Long Island, New York, USA
23 January 1988, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
21 June 1978, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
January 03, 2017
While the first film contains a stronger narrative structure and overall visual design, the primary concern of both films is to have fun, and in this respect, Resurgence provides plenty.
June 27, 2016
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.
June 26, 2016
The temptation is there to say that Independence Day: Resurgence tarnishes the image of its predecessor but the original Independence Day wasn't all that good to begin with.
July 06, 2016
"Independence Day: Resurgence" is a dull, brainless sequel, representing how sadly major studio film quality has declined in the intervening two decades. And how gullible the makers think audiences have become.
June 25, 2016
It's a non-movie, an insult to the blockbuster genre, and should stand only as a perfect example of Hollywood's more glaring deficiencies as an industry.
November 29, 2016
Some would surely argue Independence Day: Resurgence wasn't made for critics. Watching it, one wonders for whom exactly it was made.
October 24, 2016
With its flat characters and a bland, retreaded narrative, Independence Day: Resurgence makes for a banal and instantly-forgettable sequel that can't even live up to the decent spectacle of the original.
December 04, 2016
The human element is so excruciating that it's enough to make you crave the paint-by-numbers action scenes like a desert oasis.
December 06, 2016
Not that bad a movie when you get down to it, it's just so painfully inept and never wants to think outside the box.
June 27, 2016
Moreover, the movie keeps announcing over and over exactly how much time is left before the world gets destroyed. In practical terms, that simply reminds the audience that this two-hour exercise feels like a pretty long sit, despite its frenetic pacing.
June 24, 2016
Disposable and shockingly inept.
