The Reviews Are In For Independence Day: Resurgence And It’s Not Good
Independence Day: Resurgence hit theaters today and reviews for the Roland Emmerich directed film have surfaced. So far it is not looking good for the movie as critics are panning the movie.
At the time of writing, the movie is averaging a 31/100 on Metacritic. That score is absolutely terrible. Critics are hammering the movie with review scores worse than The Warcraft Movie and Batman vs. Superman. Yup, that bad!
There are currently 35 reviews captured on Metacritic, so that is a pretty good sample size. Surely, a few more reviews will arrive this weekend but don’t expect that average score to climb much higher than it is now. Regardless, that is not a good start for the sequel many were looking forward to.
Rolling Stone gave the movie a score of 38 and said the following:
“But come on, you don’t buy a ticket to something like this to see a soap opera with C-list acting. You want aliens. And you get them. At first, they’re kind of cool in a creepy way. And then repetition dulls the effect. Finally, you think, is that all there is? Yup. The only thing resurgent in this humorless mess is Hollywood’s passion to charge us more and deliver less.”
The New York Post gave the film a score of 25 out of 100 and said:
“Set on an alternate Earth where peace has reigned for the last two decades, the bloated “Independence Day: Resurgence’’ is listlessly directed by returnee Roland Emmerich. Alumni actors notwithstanding, this hamfisted fiasco has less in common with its fabled predecessor than Emmerich’s disastrous “Godzilla’’ remake.”
Entertainment Weekly gave the new Independence Day movie a big fat zero:
“Apparently, what these aliens also like is the magma at the Earth’s molten core. For some inexplicable reason, they want it. So naturally, there’s an arbitrary race against time for our heroes to stop them from wiping us out and getting their slimy tentacles on it. What? Why? Who? When? How? I realize we’re dealing in the realm of kill-crazy space monsters here, but Resurgence doesn’t make a friggin’ lick of sense. That, in and of itself, is not something I’m against. I’ll go with nonsense as long as there’s something else to hold onto – some shred or scintilla of smarts or spectacle to keep us entertained and distracted while we’re being condescended to. But Emmerich and his army of screenwriters (including original co-writer Dean Devlin) don’t even bother with that. Instead, what we get is a film whose idea of wit is having Liam Hemsworth take a leak on alien space ship while giving it the finger. Which, in a sense, is exactly what Independence Day does to its audience.”
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