The skyscraper-size harvester queen, with her broad forehead, saliva-slicked jaws and spidery limbs, looks like just about every other alien weРІР‚в„ўve seen since H.R. When the Big Kahuna alien ship descends upon the Atlantic Ocean, it does so in a big gray cloud lit through with orange flames, kind of like a giant charcoal briquette. As you may have seen in the movieРІР‚в„ўs trailer, LondonРІР‚в„ўs Tower Bridge falls down, but it happens so fast that you barely get time to relish it (if, in fact, you relish that sort of thing).

All you need to know about the plot is that the alien presence we supposedly vanquished 20 years ago has once again reared its ugly head. Everything in Independence Day: Resurgence is so big that nothing has any meaning, or any weight. Now heРІР‚в„ўs just raking over its bones, looking for more explosive ways to grab our attention. In 1996, director Emmerich ushered in the era of the modern disaster spectacle. But you canРІР‚в„ўt forgive it for being boring. You can forgive Independence Day: Resurgence for being ridiculous-its predecessor was too. But really, alien technology has only made us dumber. In the movieРІР‚в„ўs universe, Earthlings have supposedly harnessed alien technology in the 20 years since these surly beasties first invaded. I promise,РІР‚Сњ and, my personal favorite, РІР‚СљSomeone call a medical teamРІР‚Сњ? How come we sometimes see an alien creature or two-theyРІР‚в„ўre your generic moist, spindly, lizardlike things, led by a giant, all-powerful matriarch known as a harvester queen-and other times there are none in sight? Why does this movie have no sense of geography? One minute the movieРІР‚в„ўs fighter-pilot heroes are buzzing around the environs of the moon, the next theyРІР‚в„ўre sort of doodling around the Atlantic Ocean or near Washington. Why have ostensibly intelligent actors agreed to deliver lines like РІР‚СљTheyРІР‚в„ўre going for our molten core,РІР‚Сњ РІР‚СљIРІР‚в„ўm coming back. But this follow-up to EmmerichРІР‚в„ўs 1996 box-office powerhouse Independence Day is so dumb that it actually forces you to think-thereРІР‚в„ўs almost no other way to stay awake. The point of a disaster epic/alien-invasion hybrid like Roland EmmerichРІР‚в„ўs Independence Day: Resurgence is to give audiences permission to sit back, turn off their brains for a few hours and just feel the noize.

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