I think it’s time to pull the plug on disaster movies. Usher), who is the son of the Will Smith character from the first movie and usually reacts to large-scale terrors as if, oh my god, he’s about to be assaulted by a green screen! There’s also an engineer pal ( Travis Tope) who provides the movie’s Douchebag Relief by creepily ogling at the sexy Chinese pilot ( Angelababy), who’s been dropped into the plot because diversity is important. They have a mutual pilot friend, Dylan ( Jessie T. ![]() She does a lot of running and crying, which has long been the purpose of adolescent girls in disaster movies. His girlfriend ( Maika Monroe) works in The White House and used to be a pilot. Hemsworth is your typical wise-cracking macho saviour. None of these newcomers are effective in the roles assigned to them. Hemsworth plays a pilot who’s saddled with one of those generic action hero names and wears an action hero stubble like it’s the fourth of July. Dave arrives and predicts total annihilation again, as if the alien ship the size of Africa, latched on to the planet’s surface, wasn’t proof enough.Ĭut to a space station on the moon, where Liam Hemsworth and his buddies are fighting through thin characterisation and hammy dialogue to emerge as the movie’s true stars. It’s a neat trade-off.Īll the leaders of the world summon David Levinson (Goldblum), who you will recall saved the world before by infecting the aliens with a computer virus from a USB flash drive. But in Roland Emmerich land, all this does is toss some landmark buildings into the next continent and decimate entire populations. That’s until a ship a bajillion times the size of the mothership in the first Independence Day looms over planet Earth like a parasitic Frisbee and sinks its gigantic claws deep into the ground the effects of which should cause the Earth to rupture and split at the seams. That’s probably because they’ve spent the last twenty years preparing for an alien invasion and think they’ve got it all covered. Clearly none of them have seen Jurassic Park(1993), or their own prequel. All the world leaders and supposed intellectuals in Independence Day: Resurgence glare at him as if he’s a nutcase, then chuck his opinions in the bin, all before they’re either incinerated, stabbed, or shot. ![]() The man has survived transmutation, dinosaurs (twice), talking domestic pets, aliens… and he still goes unheeded. You’re an absolute fool if you don’t listen to Jeff Goldblum. ![]() Later, the distress signal is set off after a strange ship is destroyed, kickstarting a whole new invasion.Independence Day: Resurgence is less a resurgence and more a redundance. Also joining them is Jessie Usher as Dylan Hiller, the stepson of Smith's character, who is a captain in the Earth Space Defense (ESD), a new organization created to defend Earth from future alien attacks. In "Independence Day: Resurgence," ESD unfortunately finds signs that the aliens from the last attack were intending to send a signal home to call for more forces. The sequel also brings in a new class of characters - or for some, just new actors playing them - featuring Liam Hemsworth as skilled pilot Jake Morrison, who is also the fiancé of combat pilot Patricia Whitmore, played by Maika Monroe, the daughter of Pullman's former president Thomas Whitmore. Those that reprise their characters include Pullman, Goldblum, and Judd Hirsch, who plays Julius Levinson, the father of Goldblum's character. "Independence Day: Resurgence" is set 20 years after the first film with many of the main cast returning, though Smith is noticeably absent.
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