Likewise, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sela Ward have little to do, although Ward’s presence as the first female president is in line with Emmerich’s more liberal tendencies – just as White House Down was the “Die Hard in the White House” movie filmed ahead of the 2012 presidential election that stumped for Jamie Foxx rather than Aaron Eckhart. In fact, many of the new characters are bland archetypes, which is a big shame for Monroe, who’s wasted in this sort of thing, and Hemsworth, who’s still actually better here than he has ever been as the young buck who grew up in the shadow of the events of 96. Certainly, Usher cannot live up to his screen dad’s charisma for even a moment. But the film conflates Hiller with Smith, when his character was hardly iconic or indelible. Smith opted not to return for this sequel, meaning that Hiller was simply killed off between films and commemorated in a snigger-inducing oil painting that’s apparently been sourced from a screengrab and hung up in the White House. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the way that the absent Will Smith character is portrayed. As a so-called legacyquel, it’s much more cynical than something like Jurassic World and weirdly plays like The Force Awakens from some bizarre parallel universe, where Independence Day left as big a cultural impression as Star Wars. The result is a film that sloppily rounds all of the bases from its predecessor, while also snarking about tropes and repeatedly underlining how much bigger this is than the last time. Usher) – the heroes of the first invasion soon find themselves facing a redoubled threat to their existence. Along with the next generation in the ESD – hotshot pilot Jake Morrison (Liam Hemsworth), Whitmore’s daughter Patricia (Maika Monroe) and Captain Steven Hiller’s stepson, Dylan (Jessie T. Brakish Okun (Brent Spiner) are troubled by strange visions, due to their past close encounters of the third kind. Continuing the global co-operation that saw off the aliens last time around, mankind retro-engineered technology left behind from the invasion to make incredible advances in technology, setting up the Earth Space Defence, ran by David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum), as an early warning system for any return visit by the intergalactic gribblies.īut ahead of the 20th anniversary celebrations of humanity’s successful stand against the aliens, former US President Thomas Whitmore (Bill Pullman) and Dr.
In Resurgence, the same amount of time has elapsed since the events of the first film as in real life, and the world is enjoying an unprecedented era of peace. But long before its audaciously bonkers final line, the sequel has set itself out as the opposite.
After all, for all of its gung-ho patriotism, the original Independence Day is a film in which first contact with a hostile race prompted humanity to look for the best in themselves and rally to defend Earth from alien aggression. The belated sequel to Roland Emmerich’s 1996 sci-fi action blockbuster arrived in UK cinemas on the same day as the results of the referendum on the European Union, so it’s only fitting that it should make its debut on home entertainment platforms in the same week as America elected its last president.īut a film is more than just the timing of its release, and you’d think this kind of nonsense would cheer us up and take our minds off Brexit and Trump. We have given a name to our misery, and it is Independence Day: Resurgence.
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Watch Independence Day 2 online in the UK: Disney+ / Apple TV (iTunes) / Prime Video (Buy/Rent) / TalkTalk TV / Google Play / Sky Store Cast: Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Maika Monroe, Liam Hemsworth, Jesse T Usher, Brent Spiner
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