 can't believe I'm saying this but I actually prefer the original hey guys it's me again haven't been on a while this is my review for Independence Day Reeve reinsurgence I don't know Independence Day 2 unnecessary sequel anyways so this film takes place 20 years later after the original film minus one Will Smith minus Jeff Goldman's wife kind of almost minus that general guy minus that asshole who was in politics so basically the world is advanced itself but Jeff Goldman's always like oh we're gonna find actually Jeff Goldman I don't even know what he's doing in this movie at the very beginning of the film he's going to this area in Africa and he's seeing this circle symbol which is interesting because apparently there's a lot of other people who saw this circle symbol and it's this circle that is a kind of this reoccurring theme to the film and has a meaning to it and really the funny thing is this is the biggest thing I have to say about this film there's two issues there's two major issues with it one is despite the fact that I think it has a very similar runtime it feels really really rushed really rushed and the second every aside from two jokes every single joke in the film I swear it could have a walk walk walk track attached to it the humor is awful and what's so crazy about it is that five people wrote the script and it's so like the movie moves so fast that you don't really get to know any of the characters or you get to care like that's something that we've always had with Ronald Emmerich films is we've never really had that much character if they've been a character they've been a stereotype character but at least to say they've been a character at all for the original Independence Day Will Smith will Smith was great Jeff Goldman was a nerd his the general guy that the president was a guy well he didn't have much character either Bo Pullman didn't really have much emotion bad example how about a day after tomorrow Dennis Quaid Jake Gyllenhaal those were characters right and what's funny too is that this film doesn't even have as not much destruction as the original Independence Day because all the destruction actually happens literally at one moment that's it there's one part where this big spaceship comes down the gravity goes wrong blah blah blah everything gets all fucked up and that's it the threat of this film is so much smaller despite the fact that the ship is as big as the entirety of the United States and that's something that I felt with very boring about the whole movie is I felt no tension I felt no real I don't know any sort of urgency to this film I didn't feel a danger for the characters and that's something too is that's probably one thing that made the first Independence Day so watchable is the kind of the tension the effects the characters are so stupid but the lines like you know the dialogues funny but like bad funny and will Smith was in it this film has no will Smith his son you know the kid does okay but he's no will Smith obviously Liam Hemsworth he has one joke that actually was kind of funny that was okay but there's is there's so many characters are totally pointless there's a guy who looks like John Oliver who's the most annoying sap on the planet there's a guy who totally think it's Harry Conning Jr. who's gonna die but he doesn't and that was what was actually funny is for a film that has at least a billion deaths happen at least a billion deaths happen in one moment it's kind of really passed off and that's something that this film suffers from most of all is that you just you're sitting there you just don't care I was going into this movie expecting something as awfully watchable as the original film was the the original film is stupid cheesy terrible but it's very watchable this one's not this one's very forgettable there's almost no point to it the effects take over the film but in the end if so much of the film was probably done on green screen Jeff Goldblum wasn't funny his father oh my god he was only in it for five minutes but Jesus that was five minutes too long and it's really like there's a very important person who gets killed off and it's just passed off as nothing and they don't even bring it up again and they don't even confirm that the death they just literally just out of the film so Independence Day 2 is a very pointless movie it is it does have a little bit of a build-up for sequel which is stupid I don't know like this is it's funny but Ronald Emmerich has Adam Sandler himself surely Ronald Emmerich has never been known for good movies but at least he's had a character to them at least they've had a sort of a resemblance of entertainment though I've noticed that with his last few years especially 2012 and now this movie he's just he's not very good at making these movies anymore I don't know I think it when you made destruction difficult to do in the 90s and in the early 2000s when you actually had to not only just work with computers but you still have to work with models and everything that really put a lot of effort into it now with that they just have the computer people do it I don't know I just feel that the effort was gone anyways my rating for Independence Day 2 is a 2 out of 7 ironic and yeah no I was really looking forward to watching something cool out here in Hunter Mile and wasn't really that good anyway guys that's all from me I will be putting up my other reviews very soon I'll talk to you guys later