Independence Day: Resurgence Review - Will It Live On? Will It Survive? Do We Celebrate Our Independence Day?
It's been 20 years since Bill Pullman's character in Independence Day picked up a microphone and passionately told the pilots in waiting that 'we will not quietly into the night, we will not vanish without a fight etc etc, you get the idea. But it's hard to think it was 1996 when the aliens first came to Earth and took out some of our favourite landmarks. Independence Day: Resurgence is set, conveniently 20 years after ID4 and since 1996 the people of Earth have set aside their differences, pulled together and thanks to alien technology integration enjoyed a higher quality of life. As a result of this new technology they've also boosted the Earth defenses and prepared for another invasion. This time, naively the human race think they're ready. As you can guess, they're not. As you've probably gathered by now the aliens return bigger, much much bigger. In fact we first see the mother ship ripping through the moon, taking out the defenses se...