Independence Day (1996)
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Reviews Counted:54
Fresh:33
Rotten:21
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: The plot is thin and so is character development, but as a thrilling, spectacle-filled summer movie, Independence Day delivers.
Runtime: 2 hrs 33 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: With a $71 million budget and mind-blowing special effects, INDEPENDENCE DAY is a grand, high-tech throwback to such films of the 1950s as THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL and WAR OF THE WORLDS. Here,... [More]
Starring: Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Margaret Colin
Director: Roland Emmerich
Reviews for Independence Day
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It coulda been a contender. Full Review |
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Independence Day Restores Order to the Millennium. Full Review |
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Basically, this is almost perfect realization of the movie you eagerly anticipated when, as a kid, you saw some poster or coming attractions trailer for a 1950s-style alien invasion movie ... Full Review |
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Splendidly cheesy entertainment. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Insanely pompous and brilliantly exhilarating in equal measure. Full Review |
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B+ |
It's the first futuristic disaster movie that's as cute as a button. Which, when all the special effects blow over, is what we Americans like in a monster hit. Full Review |
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If I were a 10-year-old boy, I'd probably think it was the coolest movie going. Full Review |
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As unavoidably entertaining as it is hopelessly cornball. Full Review |
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Maybe the moviemakers' mission was to boldly go where everyone in Hollywood has gone before: the bank. Full Review |
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B+ |
No matter how ludicrous and coincidental the plot gets, it never takes itself seriously. Full Review |
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The earnestness, the effects, and the notion of a whole world forgetting its differences to defeat a common foe carry a certain charm. Full Review |
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1/5 |
Forget government conspiracies about aliens -- what about the entertainment media's conspiracy to persuade America that this movie doesn't suck? Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
No one who wants to see this movie needs me to recommend it to them, but if anyone wants to know, I say stay home and rent one of those other movies on video. Full Review |
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Everything feels anti-climactic after the fireworks, but the moral is clear: it's the end of the world as we know it. And we feel fine. Full Review |
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B+ |
No brain, no pain, but a heck of a lot of fun. Full Review |
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A- |
The most spectacular and intriguing sci-fi action film since the 'Star Wars' trilogy. (published 7-6-96) Full Review |
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Finally, science fiction the way it used to be: rousing, cosmically xenophobic and ferociously patriotic... Take that, space bullies! Full Review |
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