Bearded ex-president Bill Pullman rises from retirement because he can feel something is wrong and he needs to start spitting out inspirational speeches to everyone around him. After sitting dormant for 20 years, one of the crashed alien ships starts booping and beeping and all of the captured aliens spring back to life. But wouldn’t ya know it? Those aliens aren’t done with us yet. Jeff Goldblum’s scientist character has spearheaded studies to adopt alien technologies, so now there’s a weapons base on the moon, the army fires laser guns, and the president flies around in a hover-copter. So, it’s been 20 years since the last Independence Day and humanity has rebuilt itself. We can only hope that it isn’t successful enough to spawn the sequel set up in the closing scene. Nope, this is just an annoying, empty shell of a sequel that offers nothing but the lowest common denominator. Yet perhaps worst of all, the movie isn’t even ironically amusing in its braindead excesses. Sloppily written, pedestrianly executed, and completely lacking in any sort of personality or nuance, Independence Day Resurgence is the braindead waste of time and talent that everyone assumed it would be.

So now, out of sheer desperation, Independence Day is back and boy does it ever feel like a movie that no one particularly wanted to make. However, that didn’t happen and director Roland Emmerich had a few unsuccessful movies in a row. In fact, I’m sure that if there was a poll sent out to moviegoers asking which 90s blockbuster they never wanted to see get a sequel 20 years later, Independence Day would have been near the top of the list. No one asked for an Independence Day sequel.

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