Aliens are coming and they aren't friendly!

Rating: Null/10 (4 October 1998)

SF-movie from Roland Emmerich, who we know from the weak SF-movie Moon 44 and the even worser Universal soldier ( a sort of Robo'flop'). Stargate was great and it has much in common with ID4, you could say it's from the same 'formula',very good special effects, good acting and directing but a weak story ( like Twister ). ID4 has very incredible story ok it's still a SF-movie but Will Smith stepping into a alien aircraft which had been worked on for 40 years without result in how to fly the thing and he flies it perfectly in 10 minutes is a little over the limit. Further are there many 'holes' in the movie things that just don't match and Jeff Goldblum must be gigantic smart to know how earth must be saved in 10 minutes! This film is very patriotic with the president of the US ( who served in the gulf war as fighter pilot ) fighting with normal pilots in the battle against the aliens. It sometimes almost looks like a propagandist movie from the US army. And the whole movie is for me to soft, with the brave president and his quite little daughter, the nice black woman and his lovely little boy, the old man who makes jokes, the weird professor who knows from the beginning how the earth must be saved, and the old alcoholic flyer from who you know hours before the end of the novie that he will save the planet and will give his life, and the 'sturdy' airforce pilot ( Will Smith ). Why not a movie in the sphere of Aliens or The Crow or Alien 3
Movies with a dark sphere, hard, no 'happy endings' no romantic additions just like a SF-Horror movie should be. This film could have been great, but maybe all I am saying is all nonsense it is after all a pleasant movie to watch on your video on a cold rainy evening when you have nothing else to do. Rating ( out of 10 ) : 7.