Will Smith enjoys himself in his first big screen outing, yet he's nothing more than a two-dimensional, gung-ho type hero who spends much of his screen time as comic relief. Jeff Goldblum just plays out his usual lovable scientist routine, like he does in just about every film I see him in. At least they managed to assemble a memorable cast, but most people are wasted in their roles and frankly there are just too many sub plots and different characters to make you care about any of them. I guess the fault here lives in Devlin and Emmerich, the guys who made this film and GODZILLA, but at least this isn't as bad as that trash. Not much of it is original either - when it looks like something clever is coming along, the film makers just decide to blow everything up instead to make the biggest spectacle. We are forced to sit through excruciating scenes of the president's wife dying ("she's sleeping.") and people in love which are totally out of place and quite embarrassing. Let's face it, there's just too much sickly sentimentalising of the worst kind in this film, where all I wanted to see was more alien destruction. Sitting through this film feels like a chore and it's difficult to stop yourself becoming bored during the scenes where aliens aren't around. The trouble with INDEPENDENCE DAY is that, clocking in at two hours and nineteen minutes, it's just far too long. When it comes down to it, EARTH VS THE FLYING SAUCERS is a more enjoyable film than INDEPENDENCE DAY. Anyway, it's sad to think that now we have unlimited budgets and state of the art CGI animation, we still can't do everything right. It feels like INDEPENDENCE DAY is in fact a remake of EARTH VS THE FLYING SAUCERS, and I'll bet that at least some of the scriptwriters viewed that film in advance (or maybe when they were kids).
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Despite being separated by forty years, the plots are basically the same, both casts are full of military types, and even the way that the aliens are finally destroyed are very similar. Watching this on a back-to-back with EARTH VS THE FLYING SAUCERS, I was surprised to see how similar the two films are. Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 6 / 10 Fun special-effects filled extravaganza, nothing more Overall, not terrible, but it is a case of the special effects overshadowing pretty much everything else. Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum are great actors, but their characters are shallow and Goldblum especially should have had more to do. I am not a huge fan of Will Smith but he has done some stuff I like, however he overdoes it here and his character for some reason annoys me. The acting, despite this great cast, is not good, they all try hard but they can't do anything with the dialogue and with Emmerich fighting them every step of the way it is no wonder. Also the film is much too long, and it doesn't help that the pace is uneven. However, the dialogue on the most part is very cheesy and forced, the story is shallow and incomprehensible and the direction is murky. David Arnold's score is also serviceable, with some interesting song choices, and the ending is quite explosive. The film does look great though, the special effects are very good and the scenery and cinematography are also excellent. Granted, I do not think it is Roland Emmerich's worst film, but it is far from his best either(that's The Day after Tomorrow and even that was pretty uneven). It does have a great cast and it looked good. When I first heard of this movie, I was fairly interested. Reviewed by TheLittleSongbird 4 / 10 Great special effects, but little else to offer The survivors devise a plan to fight back against the enslaving aliens, and July 4th becomes the day humanity will fight for its freedom. The survivors set out in convoys towards Area 51, a strange government testing ground where it is rumored the military has a captured alien spacecraft of their own. On July 3rd, the aliens all but obliterate New York, Los Angeles and Washington, as well as Paris, London, Houston and Moscow.
After attempts to communicate with the aliens go nowhere, David Levinson, an ex-scientist turned cable technician, discovers that the aliens are going to attack major points around the globe in less than a day.
At first thought to be meteors, they are later revealed to be gigantic spacecraft, piloted by a mysterious alien species. It is soon learned by the military that a number of enormous objects are on a collision course with Earth. On July 2nd, communications systems worldwide are sent into chaos by a strange atmospheric interference.