Review of Bastille Day (2016) by Bfoore90 — 26 Jun 2016

Resurgence was decent to a degree, nothing more. Most of the good in this movie comes from Jeff Goldbloom, Bill Pullman, and the cast of returning characters. As expected with Emmerich's previous work, the special effects are on point and it has some good scenes.

In terms of everything else, I wonder just how stupid the script writers thought audiences would be? Its like they took all logic and believably and left it all in the first 20 minutes of start time. The story is mired with plot holes and inconsistencies like for instance, how President Whitmore can barely walk in the beginning of the film but then by the time chaos ensues and he shaves his beard, hes fully functional again and can man foreign alien technology and how the Queen alien can survive full sized fusion bombs being thrown at her but her shields fall from minor weapon fire.

It also doesn't help that the new characters are as dull and boring as can be, the only decently interesting character was the Warlord. Even Maika Monroe, who I enjoyed in "It Follows" was bad and I still wonder how Liam Hemsworth has maintained a career outside of The Hunger Games as he was next to awful in this.

Not only are the characters bad, most of their dialogue was worse. There was also next to no character development from so much being crammed into a 2 hour movie. While I will say this movie was decent to a extent, I felt alot of this movie lacked the heart and dare I say, emotion that made Independence Day a good film.

I left this film missing Will Smith's charisma and Bill Pullman's emotion that made the first one matter to me.