For my movie today i watched Independence Day on Blu-Ray. The picture was very good and the digital sound is excellent. The movie itself is 14 years old and does not hold up against the superior CGI and hyper kinetic story telling of the 21st century. It plays like a 70's disaster movie. The script has too many moments of unneeded humor that always and some plain old bad dialogue.
But the set-up is great and the first 50 minutes hold your attention. The destruction of the White House is one of the most iconic movie moments of the 1990's. There is also a rousing battle in the end. It's in the middle 30 minutes where the movie seriously bogs down.
I enjoy watching the movie but I can't help thinking about what it could have been with a better script and some tighter editing. But in the end the movie does the one thing its supposed to do, be entertaining.
At the Movie House rating *** stars
2 comments:
Independence day was not a good movie. sure it had some good special effects but those moments are brief. As you stated (paraphrase), the middle of this movie was just plain bad and the end battle was a little better than mediocre. 2.5 stars is plenty to give this movie...it is much more notable for its failures than its success
This movie was more notable for its failure than its success. a full third of it was just plain bad. For kids, I would give it 3 stars but even they would sleep through the middle. Noty a very good movie and is you find nodding off to be entertainment, then you might like it...2.5 stars
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