The special effects lack any interesting designs or forms, and many of them suffer from rather a slow movement as though they lack any energy to their modeling.
Much of the dialogue in the film is just an empty exposition that is either one-note or uninspired, to the point where it feels as though the film is not actually telling a story at those respective points but rather putting in exposition for the sake of it.Resurgence is also pretty much a rehash of the previous film, except only the setting and the aliens' goal are the major things that are different.Much of the sub-plots drag out in a way it drags out the pacing time could have been spent on expanding upon the characters, instead of shoehorning in these long and boring subplots.Its story is structured quite poorly and lacks a sense of focus regarding the lack of a sense of focus, this is mainly due to the film constantly shifting between sub-plots and characters which feel rather useless and seems to refuse to focus on any of them properly to the point where it is difficult to sympathize with them any time the film switches to something else, it feels as though it is interrupting the story the viewer is on at that point.Sequelitis: It is completely unnecessary, mainly since the previous film already had a perfect ending which did not warrant a continuation, let alone a sequel, since both of the main characters destroyed the mothership thus defeating the aliens and ending Independence Day on a very high note in addition, Resurgence came out twenty years after the first film, so the idea for a sequel was basically stale by the time it was released.president, teams of scientists, and brave fighter pilots spring into action to save the planet from a seemingly invincible enemy. When the alien invaders attack with unprecedented force, the U.S. Fortunately, twenty years earlier, nations across the world started to use recovered extraterrestrial technology to develop an immense defense program. The film premiered at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on June 20, 2016, and was released in the United States on June 24, 2016.Īs Independence Day nears, satellite engineer David Levinson investigates a 3,000-mile-wide mother ship that is approaching Earth. It serves as the sequel to Independence Day. Independence Day: Resurgence is a 2016 American science fiction action disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich and written by Emmerich, Dean Devlin, Nicolas Wright, James A. When you produce a sequel to film with no indication of there being said sequel twenty years too late, this is Independence Day: Resurgence in a nutshell.Ĭharacters by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich