![]() President Lanford (SELA WARD), General Adams (WILLIAM FICHTNER) scientist Catherine Marceaux (CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG) who has a past with David and war lord Dikembe Umbutu (DEOBIA OPAREI) with experience killing the aliens. We also get some fresh faces including pilots Jake Morrison (LIAM HEMSWORTH), Dylan Hiller (JESSE USHER) - who is the son of Captain Steven Hiller (played by Will Smith), killed off-screen in a training accident -, Rain Lao (ANGELABABY) and Charlie Miller (TRAVIS TOPE) U.S. Isaacs (JOHN STOREY) who I honestly do not remember from the first movie. Brakish Okun (BRENT SPINER) who have a telepathic connection with the aliens, the former looking like a nutcase while Okun wakes up from a 20 year coma and Dr. On the front lines to stopping these aliens are some familiar faces: David Levinson (JEFF GOLDBLUM), director of the Earth Space Defense ex-President Whitmore (BILL PULLMAN) and Dr. They’re also bigger and badder than ever, led by the Queen (a la Aliens), with larger ships. And it’s a good thing because not only are they back, but they are not out for revenge but to drain our resources, namely the magma at Earth’s core, thus ending all of life. The story, taking place 20 years following the “War of 1996”, there is world peace and humankind has utilized and weaponized the alien technology in case they ever would return. The tagline “We had twenty years to prepare…” makes me chuckle because one would apply it to the (numerous) writers to ask, 20 years and this is what they came up with? Now, I will say, Independence Day: Resurgence isn’t a dumpster fire of a sequel as there are some entertaining moments and the finale at least was passable, and yet by the end, I can only ask, “Why?” Fox, Angelababy, Joey Kingįeatures: Commentary, Featurettes, Deleted Scenes, Gag ReelĪudio (UHD): English (Dolby Atmos), French (DTS 5.1), Spanish (DTS 5.1)Īudio (BD): English (DTS-HD MA 7.1), French (DD 5.1), Spanish (DD 5.1) Woods and Dean Devlin & Roland Emmerich and James Vanderbilt (screenplay)Ĭast: Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Maika Monroe, Travis Tope, William Fichtner, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Judd Hirsch, Sela Ward, Brent Spiner, Vivica A. Writer(s): Dean Devlin & Roland Emmerich (characters) Dean Devlin & Roland Emmerich and Nicolas Wright & James A. ![]() Although I don’t think this was awful, and frankly outside of the President’s speech, the first one is hardly great in terms of storytelling, there really is no reason for this to existl.įox | PG13 – 120 min. Independence Day: Resurgence is merely the latest example of why some sequels are not necessary.
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