Independence Day: Resurgence
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: June 24, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
32
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 40 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
17
Negative:
21
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
Boston GlobeTy BurrJun 24, 2016
The movie must be bad, right? Worse, it’s a bore. Read full review
38
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperJun 24, 2016
This is a disaster by committee. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireJun 24, 2016
It’s just dull and hollow — a massive waste of time and money. The characters are flimsy, the dialogue is stilted and the amount of destruction is ridiculous. Read full review
38
Rolling StonePeter TraversJun 24, 2016
Independence Day: Resurgence pretends there's fresh ground to cover. There isn't, but director Roland Emmerich makes a good show of faking it. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreJun 24, 2016
Independence Day: Resurgence is all big effects, big explosions, epic battles rendered in state-of-the-art strokes. But really bad writing, achingly bad acting, groaning scenes and a serious lack of suspense and surprise all add up to zero fun, this time around. Read full review
38
USA TodayBrian TruittJun 24, 2016
Ridiculousness needs to abound somewhat in a film like this — reality takes a seat early and often here — but Resurgence pushes everything to an egregiously over-the-top and often infuriating degree. Read full review
33
The PlaylistRuss FischerJul 14, 2016
There’s no heart in this movie, no urgency. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovJun 28, 2016
Honestly, I could watch Goldblum and Gainsbourg – two of the most quirkily sublime multihypenate artists alive – reading phonebooks to each other and enjoy the experience thoroughly, but sadly even they seem wasted here. Read full review
30
The New York TimesManohla DargisJun 24, 2016
The lackluster, at times abysmal writing wouldn’t much matter if Resurgence popped visually or featured a charismatic star who could lift a movie as effortlessly as Will Smith did in the first feature. Read full review
30
New York Daily NewsStephen Whitty Jun 24, 2016
While the first "Independence Day" was genuinely big, dumb fun, its sequel only manages to be a bigger, dumber bore. Read full review
30
ScreenCrushMatt SingerJun 23, 2016
Independence Day: Resurgence is a bad movie, occasionally in ways that are good for a chuckle, like when people earnestly deliver lines like “Now listen up! They’re going for our molten core!” but mostly just bad in ways that make you wish you hadn’t wasted your money or your time. Read full review
25
ConsequenceDominick Suzanne-MayerJun 24, 2016
A curiously loud and ugly beast of a sequel. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubJun 24, 2016
The sequel is even more silly, and much less fun. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJun 24, 2016
I saw Resurgence an hour and a half ago, and I feel like an alien wiped my memory clean already. Read full review
25
New York PostLou LumenickJun 23, 2016
The first “Independence Day’’ was a lot of fun, with a great lines and cutting-edge special effects. It was much imitated, so the sequel plays like a faded, eighth-generation copy with a cast that’s shooting blanks when it comes to humor. Read full review
20
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinJun 24, 2016
This hodgepodge has been thrown together in so slovenly a way that it’s no surprise the studio didn’t show it to the press. Read full review
20
The GuardianPeter BradshawJun 21, 2016
Joyless and tedious, a reboot quite without the first film’s audacity and fun... It’s a movie that is going through the intergalactic motions. Read full review
16
IndieWireDavid EhrlichJun 24, 2016
An immaculate case-study in how far blockbusters have fallen. Read full review
0
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzJun 24, 2016
One of the most aggressively stupid blockbusters ever made, a painful exercise in Hollywood greed and artistic incompetence on every level. Read full review
0
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyJun 24, 2016
Disposable and shockingly inept. Read full review
0
Slant MagazineChuck BowenJun 24, 2016
Emmerich rewards our patience with an impersonally massive set piece involving the usual generic stew of mass CGI-imagined demolition. The insensitivity displayed toward human life in these sequences would be galling even by Emmerich's standards, if this pitiful albatross of corporate capitalism could work up enough energy to be offensive. Read full review
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