Independence Day: Resurgence
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: June 24, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
32
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 40 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
17
Negative:
21
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranJun 24, 2016
Both impossible to take seriously or seriously dislike. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinJun 21, 2016
The main thing consumers will be looking for from Resurgence is bang-for-buck entertainment, and that it delivers reasonably successfully. Read full review
60
VarietyGuy LodgeJun 21, 2016
This cinematic Big Mac entertains abundantly on its own second-hand merits. Read full review
60
Time Out LondonTom HuddlestonJun 21, 2016
It’s all too much too fast, and the cumulative effect is like watching a two-hour trailer – more dizzying than thrilling. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyJun 24, 2016
Resurgence ends up falling victim to its attempts to differentiate itself while remaining completely derivative. Read full review
58
The Film StageDaniel SchindelJun 24, 2016
Despite all this, Independence Day: Resurgence still emerges as one of the better blockbusters of this summer, and that’s only halfway damning with faint praise. It’s a mess, but I grinned a good portion of the way through. Read full review
55
TheWrapJason SolomonsJun 21, 2016
The spaceships and the destruction are bigger but not better in Roland Emmerich‘s twenty-years-later follow-up, where only Jeff Goldblum‘s sense of humor saves the day. Read full review
50
The New YorkerAnthony LaneJun 27, 2016
No surprise, then, that Goldblum seems a little lonely and marooned in the latest venture, which suffers from a nagging case of Smithlessness. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliJun 27, 2016
Tarnishes the image of its predecessor but the original Independence Day wasn’t all that good to begin with. Read full review
50
SlateDana StevensJun 24, 2016
The disaster sequences themselves — of which there are many, placed at regular intervals but disconnected from the story, like operatic arias — have a dreamlike and weirdly exhilarating quality that’s quite different from the plodding wham-bam destruction of the average action blockbuster. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerMolly EichelJun 23, 2016
While the plot is dumb and the script is worse, watching aliens explode in spectacular fashion isn't the worst excuse to spend to two hours in air-conditioning. Read full review
42
Tampa Bay TimesJimmy GeurtsJun 24, 2016
Fails both as a film and even as fan service. Read full review
40
CineVueChristopher MachellJul 14, 2016
Lacks both the iconic heft of its predecessor's imagery as well as any sense of character development. Read full review
40
TimeStephanie ZacharekJun 24, 2016
Goldblum manages to rise above the proceedings via his invisible jetpack of dry wit — thank God for that. The only newcomer who emerges unscathed is Gainsbourg, who glides through this mess with Zen equanimity—even as chaos reigns, she keeps her cool. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzJun 24, 2016
Laughably bad dialogue and wooden acting. Read full review
40
The TelegraphRobbie CollinJun 21, 2016
This isn’t just lazy, it’s borderline nonsensical. Resurgence inflates the scale of the alien threat to such a preposterous degree – the mothership takes up roughly an eighth of the Earth’s total surface – that the queues of honking traffic and rooftop helicopter rescues we’re supposed to invest in can’t help but feel like microscopic trifles. Read full review
40
Total FilmJamie GrahamJun 21, 2016
This might have been titled ‘Independence Day: Submergence’. It’s certainly hard not to drown in the sea of CGI, with the exponential increase of pixels being to Independence Day what the Star Wars prequels were to the original trilogy. Read full review
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