Independents' Day

I didn't find this as terrible as described in most of the reviews, yeah I see where they're coming from, but I liked some of this movie, the tone and acting was typically mainly flat and the pacing was horrible but I found the buildup kind of intriguing with the aliens being forceful yet claiming to be benevolent until it's eventually revealed that they are basically stealing people's blood as energy or something and jettisoning the remains into space like yesterday's trash! I found it all a little reminiscent of the classic TV sci-fi series V. I thought the alien leader was pretty cool, I found the design of the faceless thing impressive, although all of the interior scenes of the alien ships looked really s****ty and cheap. The president mum lady made me laugh because she was so bad and taking it all so seriously, although she still kept looking like she was dying to smile or laugh, and she was no president, at best she had the gravitas of a school principal! And her son I found pretty funny too, he kept tearlessly crying, badly, at every little thing! So yeah what can you really say about a thin silly movie like this that overstays it's welcome long before it finishes? Not exactly a worthwhile flick that I recommend to anyone in particular...but I don't know, kind of mildly enjoyable and fun at points to me, and I can honestly say that I enjoyed it that tiny bit more than I did Independence Day Resurgence, that much I can say..c'est la vie!

I think that this movie was financially supported by Sarah Palin. Look at the USA president; they have almost same face and the attitude is there. :) In any case, I usually do not comment movies and it is my first time here. This is one of the most awful movies I have ever seen. Naive, stupid, ambivalent with zero action, adrenalin and all other hormones shut down immediately. Seems like a very bad American propaganda movies. And now the IMDb says I should write at least 10 lines of review?! What the hack! It is not possible to say anything else that this is a complete crap of the movie. It shouldn't be watched even under the threat of torture.

Potentially the worst movie since fatal deviation. Not connected in any way to the original. I watched this on a plane while killing time and twice thought of parachuting to safety. Showing this movie to ISIS would end the war in the middle east immediately. Acting and plot are amongst the worst you will see with by far the best performance being put in by the extras who can be seen laughing to themselves in many scenes, which almost had the effect of convincing me that this might be some kind of spoof but alas that was not to be. This one is strictly for BitTorrent as to reward this type of effort would make us as bad as the North Koreans.

I am still thrilled to see people *** their pants to scream out loud, how bad a movie this and that was. Guys, wake up. Its Asylum time. $500k spent and such a movie created. The moment the first alien ships appeared, I yelled, hey, Michael Bay should beg for the receipts! One of the best CGI I have seen in an Asylum production. The story-line is quite easy to guess -all have seen the zillion dollar counterpart- the acting is OK, the VP turned POTUS was a surprise for me, she was a decent representative of a politician in hard times. So if you can forget its a mock-buster, maybe you will even enjoy it. If you are a fan for trash movies, just like me, you will definitely enjoy it.

All the poor reviews for this film surprised me when I first read them. I seen this movie at my local Walmart for 10 bucks.Being a huge Independence Day fan and B movie fan I grabbed it. I had 0 hopes of it being any good due to it being produced by The Asylum but it IS a great B movie. The special effects are really good and the story is quite engaging. The acting is as good as you can expect for this kind of film buy better than most I have seen. If you dig B movie ScFi flicks and love the alien invasion idea you will enjoy this movie. I gave it 5 out of ten and for a B flick that's pretty good. You won't be disappointed. I felt like the story could have been an interesting idea if the right studio had gotten it besides the Asylum but still it's probably their best produced film that I have seen. The ships and the aliens look great and the space battles are cool as heck. Very good alien B movie. Check it out.

I shall be brief! This has to be one of the worst, if not the worst, film I have seen! The acting is........well I am giving it a complement by crediting it as acting.....terrible! Where do these 'actors' come from? The script is pretty dire which doesn't help the actor's cause, but even so the finished product must have had the "ok we've got a shot there" by someone! I just wonder how many 'takes' it took to get something so bad! It might be quite amusing actually to see a DVD of the 'out-takes'. A complete waste of time! Do not even think that it is the sequel to Independence Day, it is nowhere near the quality of that movie. Awful! Awful! Awful!

It seems that all the "bad" reviews here are due to people not understanding this film at all. This is mock film about the "Independence Day" films.. and was done because of the "new" upcoming Independece day coming out on June (24)th of 2016. The film was lots of negatives, but in all its "errors" it is clean - has few, if any obscene language, and does send a message of the big "if" question: are these invaders helping or or they evil? It does have low and high points, but we liked it.. and it has actors that are fairly new to films (its good to see new faces, instead of the same actors one sees in science fiction films). This film is better for a younger audience (as an older, more educated audience will know where it is headed).

First, do not mistake this for the 2016 sequel to the original Independence Day. "Independents' Day" (the cheeky title alone deserves an extra point) is made by The Asylum, a company which specializes in grabbing as many sales as it can from people mistaking their productions for upcoming blockbusters, or from people such as myself who don't mind watching these things occasionally as a change from all the over-hyped, big-budget productions about. Production values are very much in dollars rather than billions of dollars. However, that doesn't mean the result is necessarily bad. The actors take their roles seriously, albeit they're not exactly A-list, being either complete unknowns or daytime soap extras. Occasionally The Asylum do pull in a recognizable face, but there's none in this film. The special effects are actually not bad - better than many TV productions I've seen, and the story-line is quite imaginative, although the screenplay lets things down a bit. That's a shame, as with a bit more attention to the latter the whole production could be raised a notch or two. In this film, some large(ish) spaceships arrive on earth and instead of immediately destroying everything offer to relocate earth's population to avoid a costly battle, even offering rewards in the form of cures for various diseases if humankind cooperates. The female vice-president of America finds it's up to her to work out what's really going on and find a way to prevent the aliens' from taking possession the planet. I definitely wouldn't recommend wasting $10 on this - wait a couple of months until it appears in the $1 bin. It's good to pass a bored 1½ hours when there's nothing else to do, or save it for a day when your in bed with chickenpox. Also, as another reviewer has pointed out, The Asylum productions are blissfully free from the expletives and sexism that appear in almost everything these days, for which I'm truly grateful.

I really am struggling to find the words to describe JUST how bad this movie is. Poor CGI. TERRIBLE acting. Obviously a rip off story... Poor narrative that doesn't come close to the original movie which wasn't exactly poetry in motion itself. It's just impossible to understand why they can get away with pumping out this nonsense. Or how even struggling actors get involved in such nonsense.. although I guess sometimes you have to do what you have to do.... but oh dear god... the humiliation.... !! Truly awful... avoid at all costs. I didn't and now I have the scars to show for it.

If you like aliens vs. the U.S., this is one of the best action movies! No need to tax your brain on sophisticated screenplay when you have this screenplay to use! Plot is workable and fun to watch! You have want to enjoy mindless, drive-in type movies like I do!