Independence Day: Resurgence
Independence Day: Resurgence
Two decades after the freak alien invasion that nearly destroyed mankind a new threat emerges. This Alien mothership is more than twice the size as the last one and once again, the world's armies must band together to save the world. Do they have enough firepower or will this battle change and will aliens take over?
GBWest reviewed7d ago
20 years after the first attack, both on the big screen and the audience's wallets, we get a whole new breed of awful. At least it's better than the original breed of awful.
Let us not skip out on the government cheese, right from the beginning. Independence Day Resurgence is an unrequested sequel to a poorly made first film that globally has fans for God knows what reason. But, and it's a big but, at least the filmmakers learned not to put the same musical track on a loop for this one.
Onto the meat and potatoes of this review.
I understand why Will Smith turned down a role in this film and how it affected both him and this production. Will would have been taking a pay cut to do this film. However, for the added star power of he'd returned to reprise his role the production could have gotten more money to make this film. Frankly I'm pleased he chose to pass on it, because more money for more poorly lit green screening would not have made this film better.
Okay, so imagine, if you will, that you are chatting with a friend face-to-face and the sun is to your left side (your friends right side). Each of you has half your face in the sun and half in the shade and it will be opposite sides of your faces because you are facing each other. Also, should you be facing the sun and they are facing away then one of you is fully lit while the other is backlit. So tell me why the characters in this film are almost constantly backlit, even when facing each other. It takes me out of the film.
CGI, jokes, cinematography inside spaceship sets, all of it was good. The music was good. Character arcs could have used some work so that we have a clue as to who the new people are...granted there is plenty of character arc for the new people in Independence Day Crucible, that is ID4 2's book form. Yes. Yes. Jake and Charlie are central characters in the actual ID4 sequel that we never got because Will Smith said "nah" to reprising his role.
Overall, this film seriously lacks something the first film has in spades, real physical sets; while the first Independence Day seriously lacks something this film has in spades, more than one song in the musical score.
Overall I give the acting five stars.
Character development, three stars.
A feel of real stakes and consequences, one star.
Computer Generated Imagery, three stars.
Composition, one star.
Music, four stars.
For a book total average of three stars...one and a half stars better than the first one. That's an improvement, no where near great, and still an improvement.