“The reason ‘Independence Day: Resurgence’ was not screened for critics is because…
…it SUCKS! Ordinarily this column does not use such low brow terms such as “sucks” to get a point across, but in this instance, there is no other way to say it. It was certainly suspicious when 20th Century Fox decided not to screen the movie for critics. That is usually a sign the studio believes they have a real turkey on their hands and they want to suppress the bad word-of-mouth as long as possible. So this critic shelled out $16 to see a Thursday night showing in IMAX 3D and this is one early bad review the studio can’t silence. Like when the aliens invade Earth, people must be warned!
The original “Independence Day” came out in 1996. “Independence Day: Resurgence” also takes place 20 years later. Their history is much different than ours. While the planet recovered from the alien attack, peace took over as the everyone used the alien technology to help build a better defense system if they ever came back. We now have a whole defense team on the moon and surrounding our planet. Plus, instead of fighter jets we now of spaceships of our own that can fire lasers. The alien invaders are back and this time they are bringing out their big guns and their even bigger ship. Can we survive again?
