Review of Bastille Day (2016) by Axet — 04 Jul 2016

The first one in '96 was a massive must see event of the summer/year and long awaited return to a sub-genre that had been somewhat gone from the screen for twenty years.  It was huge, but also dumb as hell.  Not a good movie. On the other hand the last big movie of its kind from nineteen years earlier "Close Encounters" was an intelligent and mysterious alien invasion story with an intelligence behind and in front of the camera (10 rating). "Independence Day" was basically camp masquerading as semi-serious with stupid half ass jokes delivered by a second rate cast and helmed by a German fanboy director without an understanding for the complexities of language, American politics and culture, much less… far less, character psychology. It did have spirit though!  (5 rating).

This sequel was so obviously concocted purely to cash in on a former hit.  What sequel isn't? (The good ones wait for a good script though!) It's even dumber with none of the spirit the original had.  And now another twenty years later, the screen has been over-saturated with alien invasion movies to the point of brain numbingly sickening nausea! Unlike the last time there's not only no need for this thing, but there should be outright extreme prejudice against it. It's an utterly worthless limp formulaic juvenile bore beyond belief.  Actually that's an insult to juveniles who surely will reject this with all they have to choose from these days.