Independence Day: Resurgence

"We had twenty years to prepare. So did they."

2016 2h 0m EN

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★5.4TMDB · 6,634

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Synopsis

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We always knew they were coming back. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens’ advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring our world back from the brink of extinction.

“We had twenty years to prepare. So did they.”

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Cast

Liam Hemsworth
Jake Morrison
Jeff Goldblum
David Levinson
Jessie T. Usher
Dylan Hiller
Bill Pullman
President Whitmore
Maika Monroe
Patricia Whitmore
Travis Tope
Charlie Miller
AngelaBaby
Rain Lao
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Dr. Catherine Marceaux

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Roland Emmerich
Writers: Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich, Nicolas Wright
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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$165M budget — tentpole studio territory.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released 10 years ago.

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3 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Independence Day Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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4 / 8

CAST

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238+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Roland Emmerich, shot by Markus Förderer. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Thomas Wander. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Adam Wolfe shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

ERA

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Liam Hemsworth and Jeff Goldblum and Jessie T. Usher carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Roland Emmerich directs. Markus Förderer behind the camera. Thomas Wander scores. Adam Wolfe cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

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1$165M budget — tentpole studio territory.
2Released 10 years ago.
3Part of the "Independence Day Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4238+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
5Directed by Roland Emmerich, shot by Markus Förderer. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Thomas Wander. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Adam Wolfe shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Liam Hemsworth and Jeff Goldblum and Jessie T. Usher carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "We had twenty years to prepare. So did they.".
10IMDB entry: tt1628841 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Released under 16 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Markus Förderer
Original score: Thomas Wander
Editing: Adam Wolfe
Production design: Barry Chusid
Costume design: Lisy Christl
Makeup / hair: Delana Veirs
VFX supervisor: Matt Aitken
Sound: Michael Minkler
Runtime: 120 min · 2h 0m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $165,000,000
Box office: $389,681,935
Return: 236% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

Part of

Independence Day Collection

A series of science fiction action films that revolves around extraterrestrials invading Earth and seeking to eradicate mankind while the remaining human resistance uses everything at their disposal to defeat the invaders and take back the planet.

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Simon Foster2016-06-22
"Independence Day: Resurgence entertains like few Hollywood blockbusters have of late, largely by foregoing pretension on every level and drilling down on the basic tenets of popcorn moviemaking..." Read the full review here: http://screen-space.squarespace.com/reviews/2016/6/22/independence-day-resurgence.html
Reno2016-11-04
★ 6/10
The earthlings are united to defend the home from another alien attack. I have said it many times that when I love a film, I always pray for a sequel to come. But I won't do that for all the films like perhaps 'Taken' and this one. These are not designed for that kind of a stretch or to own a franchise. So anyway they have made it and I'd watched. Since I was not expecting it, I did not care about the how it ends. I mean critically failed and the box office was okay, but did not meet the expectations. I mean not found anywhere near to the original film's collection. For me, minus half point for the Chinese flavour. I think the Hollywood must stop leaning towards Chinese contents. It is like they are ignoring the rest of the world. I want the old days American films, not this yuan targeted films. Sorry, that is one of the reasons why I disliked films like this, 'Now You See Me 2' and many other recent sino-Hollywood films. This story takes place 20 years later to the original film. Only a handful of characters returned and many of them were new. So now the humans leaped forward after adapting the alien technology. But when they learn the distress call was sent to the base of the enemy from the 20 years ago event, they are underprepared for another alien attack that follows very soon. Without any option they push their full force to defend the earth and it would they succeed or not is what the remaining film to reveal. Nowadays the graphics are not an issue. The filmmaking had touched down for a standard in the visual quality, especially a big production like this. So those parts even overplay the performances of the real actors. We have seen that from Gollum, King Kong and many other monster films. So if you are watching a today's high end film means, it is a pleasure from the blow ups we expect the most. Similar to killings from the horror thrillers. This film does that so well, that mean it is entertaining, but not the overall film very praisable. This story can be easily connected to many classics such as 'Star Wars' and 'Avatar'. Because how it ends seems like a story about the origins of those films. So the third film is like definitely takes us deep into the space. Looks very interesting, but does it work is the real question. It is already in the work with the same director. So lets wait and see how it corrects its mistakes. Meantime, you can watch this if you haven't yet, but it is an average film. 5.5/10
Dark Jedi2017-03-14
★ 7/10
Independence Day: Resurgence is pretty much what I expected. Actually, given all the negative reviews floating around, it is almost better than what I expected. As is almost always the case, all the 1 and 2 star ratings and “worst movie ever” reviews are pure bullshit. The biggest advantage the original movie had was the novelty of it all. This movie is really pretty much the same except for the special effects being even bigger to the extent that they are somewhat over the top at times and the plot somewhat thinner. Having said the latter, the original movie did not really have much in terms of plot either and the nonsense of giving a totally alien computer a virus was so bad it really dragged down the movie. In the relatively short timespan of two decades humanity have improved their technology base by several orders of magnitude (ray guns on the moon etc. etc…). The speed of improvement is of course pretty unrealistic, even with access to alien technology, but hey, I can live with that in order to increase the coolness factor of the movie. Then comes an alien ship. Not the aliens we all expected by another one. The ship is totally different from the previous ones, do not seem aggressive but of course dumbass politicians manage to screw everything up. Fast forward a couple of scenes and the “real” aliens arrive. Of course this time they have a bigger flyswatter and they perfunctorily proceed to swat away the puny, extremely slow firing, little ray guns of the humans and we are back to where we started in the original movie. Huge space ship parks on Earth, time for plan B. Well there were quite a few scenes of big space ships, destruction and mayhem before the aliens finally manage to park their spaceship. I guess finding a parking space for a 5 000 kilometer space ship can be a bit tricky (I though I had an issue with my Jeep). Here is were I have quite some gripes about the movie. The special effects are cool, no question about it, but they are also exaggerated and throws any attempt to be remotely adhering to the laws of physics out the window. It is clear that whatever low intelligence storywriter that wrote that garbage flunked science classes in school, if he ever got that far of course. For instance, we have a 5 000 kilometer (the Earth radius is about 6 370 kilometer) that is big enough to generate its own gravity (apparently the engines somehow contributed to this) flies in and lands on earth. When it approaches items on the surface, cars, trains, ships, skyscrapers and bits and pieces of the Earth itself starts to fly upwards. It makes for cool effects but anyone with a mediocrum of intelligence ought to realize that such a force would actually destabilize Earth itself. Possibly change the speed of rotation as well as the orbit around the sun. The story is full of other typical Hollywood stupidities and plot holes. Christ even my kids could spot the plot holes which were often big enough to drive a battleship through! As for the acting. Well, I would say there is not too much to say about it. Most of the main actors managed to make it through the movie without screwing up too badly. Given that it was not the deepest or thought provoking movie one could imagine I would say that was good enough. The best character in my opinion was Judd Hirsch as Julius Levinson. The worst one was probably Dr. Okun. Not that Brent Spiner was making a bad job of representing him but the character was just to crazed out for my taste. Okay, I will stop whining now. This movie was pretty much exactly what I expected. Great special effects tied together with a paper thin story. I went into it hoping that the effects were going to be good with little expectations on the rest and that is exactly what I got. The movie fulfilled my expectations completely and thus I consider it worth 7 out of 10 stars. I enjoyed the two hours watching it.