Before that, she takes some tough decisions, just so the film can claim some political correctness.įor some reason, Charlotte Gainsbourg lends her thespian heft to a role that requires her to haul no more than a tablet around. That includes the current US President, Lanford (Ward), who happens to be, gulp, a woman, but who conveniently dies early enough. In short, fathers, sons and daughters are of crucial significance to this tale.įrom the old film, Levinson (Goldblum) remains crucial to the world’s alien defence, as does scientist Okun (Spiner), who returns from 20-year coma to white hair and a gay companion, while Whitmore (Pullman) doesn’t let anything keep him down.
The Earthlings have been busy, however, building new bombs, weapons and a defence station on the moon that comes in for some severe pounding.Īmong the frontrunners leading the fight is Dylan (Usher), the son of the character played by Will Smith last time Jake (Hemsworth), who was rendered an orphan in the 1996 film and who avenges his parents in a way that escaped the Censor’s attention Patricia (Monroe), the daughter of former US President Whitmore (Pullman), who famously led the world to safety then and Rain (Angelababy), a Chinese ace pilot whose uncle dies on the moon. Don’t go looking for any vast improvements in either the aliens or the spaceship though, which but for one truly remarkable shot of the queen alien giving a schoolbus-full of children a chase through the Nevada desert remain the same as before. Fair enough, let’s move on to the aliens, starting with their spaceship.
It can be argued that why look for geopolitics in Independence Day. Aside from a few drunken men on a ship occupying an extraordinary amount of screen time. However, one can take heart from the fact that the rest of the world, apart from America, China and the darkest Africa that is, is also reduced to either aged faces on screen or excitable nomads herded under a tent.
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