There’s an honest-to-God feeling of disparate peoples coming together for the greater good, as opposed to a tiny group of protagonists mostly fighting against and for faceless extras.īut the film stumbles in its attempts to retrace its predecessor, hitting the beats but wrecking the structure. (I mean, it’s still weird when two Americans use QQ to video chat, but whatever.) Writer-director Roland Emmerich and his small army of co-writers excel at populating their stories with a variety of characters who can maximize their sometimes-minimal screentime.
Hell, it means the now-obligatory marginal Chinese roles barely feel shoehorned in. It’s a semi-utopian rebuke to blockbuster jingoism. Resurgence starts from the premise that the alien war of 1996 united humanity, which has since used extraterrestrial tech to successfully build a stronger-loving world.
In too many ways, though, Independence Day: Resurgence takes the Force Awakens approach and remakes the original BUT BIGGER more than it does its own thing. When Earth’s hapless defenders attempt the same tricks to beat the aliens as before, they’re outmaneuvered. But, at the same time, said spaceship stops juuuuust short of smushing the White House this time around. London, flattened in the first film but apparently rebuilt precisely as it was before, is fried again, the Burj Khalifa torn from Dubai by the gravity of a continent-sized alien spaceship and knifing right through the Eye. Twenty years after Independence Day ramped up cinema’s obsession with mass destruction, its sequel ricochets between repetition and semi-clever subversion.
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