Sorry for being away too long. It has been a crazy two months for me, with writing my thesis, some exams and other stuff. In the last two weeks I only watched one episode of
Better Call Saul. That's it. Last month I only saw
Money Monster, which was a pretty decent film. And before that I watched
The Huntsman: Winter's War, which was mediocre but entertaining (I mean, it's a film with Emily Blunt, Charlize Theron and Jessica Chastain). But just today, I treated myself with
Independence Day: Resurgence, allegedly an anticipated sequel to the arguably the best blockbuster of the 90s.
Basically 20 years have passed, the Earth now has adopted alien technology but still stupid like in the 90s, except Jeff Goldblum who's still witty and entertaining. So the aliens now are attacking Earth one more time, this time with only one ship but bigger, yet dumber. Just like the whole film.
Let me use this first sentences to say that the casting (on paper) is the best thing in the film. How do they convince the old cast to return in a film this stupid? And also get Maika Monroe and Charlotte fucking Gainsbourg to do this? But then again, I totally understand if they're just cashing in for this film, because I just don't see any kind of acting from the most of them. Then the CG is passably good. Jeff Goldblum is the best thing in this film. His "Stand behind the yellow line" line is also the best thing of the film. However everything else is just empty. Starting from the disaster porn that should be devastating, the sense of place here is just wrong. Resulting in a hollow destruction sequence. Or the stupid alien techs that just looks stupid. President Whitmore who gave an amazing speech in the first film is reduced to a bumbling crazy ex-president. and oh my god the stupid sphere. Oh and Will Smith pictures. There are so many bad things in this film that I just couldn't list (or bother myself to do so). I believe that the story is too compact that it didn't let the story beats to build itself and seep into the audience. It just plays and it feels empty. The stupid Chinese product placements didn't improve anything. The unfunny jokes are also unbearable. The music doesn't help either, I believe this film holds the title for the worst score ever created for a summer tentpole, and it has two composers. The gay rights people might be proud to have a scientist gay couple on screen but they shouldn't be because this movie is bad as fuckkkk. I have never wanted to leave the theatre this bad since
Transformers 4. And fuck them if they're making a sequel to this shit. Random spheres and humans vs. the Aliens.
Independence Day: Resurgence rated 1/4.
