Looks
like getting invaded by aliens was the best thing that ever happened
to Humanity. After they get rid of the aliens in the first one world
peace is achieved as everyone works together to cannibalise alien
tech to defend their planet against future attacks. It's basically
'Star Trek' future, but then more aliens come to fuck it all up
again.
I
actually liked this one more than the original. It was more fun - but
not intentionally so. While the original was bad, this one edged into
being so bad it's good occasionally. The feeling wasn't consistent
though, and about 80% of the movie was only so that that it was...
bad.
The
characterisation was still extremely basic and bland, and just like
in the original there was too much jumping around between disperse
characters for my liking (I like this more in novels or TV shows that
have more time to tell their story, but in a movie it really just
results in under-developed characters that we don't care about). Most
of the original cast stuck around for this one, but Will Smith , and
I'm not complaining, but that and the focus instead on a group of
young pilots meant that there was no real main character to focus on.
I
liked some of the funny moments though, and some of them were even
intentional! The Whitehouse narrowly escaping destruction was cute,
and the scene of Judd Hirsh driving his little boat along with
massive tidal waves and explosions going on around him was
hilariously bad. Another such moment was that 'Red Tails' level scene
where the guy in the plane recognises his stripper-come-doctor mother on the top of a hospital building amid the total destruction of
the whole city in time to see her fall to her death.
Brent
Spiner is back, and I really enjoyed him. “We're gonna get you to
sick bay” was a highlight, and his character was fun throughout.
In
the end though, there was too much happening in not enough time. I
liked a lot of the elements, or I at least liked the idea of them,
but everything was under-explored. This stretched out would have made
a fun, silly, TV series.
Independence Day: Resurgence: 36.4