Home
Independence Day: Resurgence

Page

Independence Day: Resurgence

Summary
How to watch
News & features

❚ We may earn commission from links on this page. Our editorial is always independent (learn more).

Watch trailer

02:38

Independence Day: Resurgence

Name: Independence Day: Resurgence
Director: Roland Emmerich
Genre: Adventure, Sci-fi, Action, War
Released: 2016
Duration: 1 h 54 min
Cast: Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Maika Monroe, Travis Tope

Save

Adventure
Sci-fi

2016
Roland Emmerich
114 mins
12

Summary

Sci-fi adventure sequel starring Liam Hemsworth and Jeff Goldblum. Twenty years after thousands made the ultimate sacrifice to thwart an alien invasion of Earth, mankind faces a new threat after it's discovered that the invaders were able to send a distress call to their home planet before being defeated.

IMDB

Review

A star rating of 2 out of 5.

Adam Smith

Twenty years after Independence Day established Roland Emmerich's disaster-movie credentials and launched Will Smith into the superstar stratosphere, the director produces a belated sequel in the hope it will emulate its predecessor as one of the biggest hits of the 1990s. Given Hollywood's mania for ancient blockbuster revivalism, it was inevitable that our interstellar invaders would finally pay a return visit. But for every franchise-reviving hit (Jurassic World), there's a massive flop (Terminator: Genisys), and sadly despite some thrilling visuals, Resurgence turns out to be a strangely underpowered damp squib. Set two decades after Earth's triumph over the aliens, it sees David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum), scientist hero of the original, now promoted to head of Earth Space Defence, though he's nervously scanning the skies for what he believes is an inevitable return visit. Action heroics are provided by Liam Hemsworth, the latest in Australia's apparently inexhaustible supply of toothy Hemsworths, and newcomer Jessie Usher (as the grown-up son of Smith's flyboy hero), who play fighter-pilot jocks with a thinly sketched grudge against each other. In the opening, spectacularly destructive invasion sequences, Emmerich reliably delivers. Giant skyscrapers are upended and dropped like matchsticks on an unfortunate London while a 3,000-mile wide mothership attaches itself to Earth, glomming onto the planet like some ghastly space wart. But, after the initial excitement, the story rapidly runs out of steam, leaving the final moments of this curiously unmemorable film sounding more like a plaintive request than a promise (despite hints of a second sequel set in space).

imdb-square

5.2/10

How to watch

Loading

Streaming

Credits

Cast

rolenameJake MorrisonLiam HemsworthDavid LevinsonJeff GoldblumThomas J WhitmoreBill PullmanPatricia WhitmoreMaika MonroeCharlieTravis TopeGeneral AdamsWilliam FichtnerDr Catherine MarceauxCharlotte GainsbourgJulius LevinsonJudd HirschDylan HillerJessie UsherDr Brakish OkunBrent SpinerJasmineVivica A FoxSamJoey KingPresident LanfordSela WardRainAngelababy