sequel to independence day resurgence awesome

Unfortunately the new characters, lead by Liam Hensworth, are uncharismatic, charmless and don’t do a very good job of engaging us from the off.

With fighter pilot Captain Steven Hiller dead and his son looking to try to fill his shoes, Dr Okun in a coma and former President Whitmore taking a backseat to politics, the stage is set to introduce a new wave of heroes in this science fiction flick. it’s all very futuristic and pleasing to the eye and is a far cry from where we left the original, realistic looking world. Along with a new looking world, we have a host of new characters introduced to bulk up the diminished squad from last time. Equipped with technology salvaged from the alien wreckage, humankind has moved forward – colonizing the moon and zipping around Earth in sleek, shiny spaceships. Slip forward through space and we end up on a very different Earth from the one that barely survived an alien invasion in 1996. With clenched fists (or…tentacles?) it punches some buttons on a holographic field, turning the cool blue to angry red as the aliens look set to reclaim Earth with a bigger, bolder and tougher force than before. Starting with a brief glimpse into the first film, an alien ship in the vast reaches of the galaxy watches the President’s rousing speech that caused the first invasion of their species to fail with what we assume to be disgust. Somewhere along the way though, this bloated, lifeless sequel loses the charm the original had and with it, any hope of becoming a memorable film. It’s a shame because for the first twenty minutes or so, the film shows great promise and builds some good tension. It was always going to be a tough ask to surpass the high standard the original set with its larger-than-life story and memorable characters but Independence Day: Resurgence doesn’t hit the bar set by its predecessor, it misses it completely and figuratively falls flat on its face. Two decades after the lovable original hit the big screen, Independence Day is back with its resurgence and with it, a new look, feel and characters.

Sequel to independence day resurgence awesome