A Spectacle Of A Movie

Rating: 8/10 (3 October 2012)

Independence Day is a military science fiction disaster film about an alien invasion of Earth.It stars Will Smith,Jeff Goldblum and Bill Pullman together with Margaret Colin,Vivica A. Fox,Mary McDonnell,Judd Hirsch,Robert Loggia,Randy Quaid and James Rebhorn. The narrative focuses on a disparate group of people who converge in the Nevada desert and, along with the rest of the human population, participate in a last- chance counterattack on July 4,which is the same date as the Independence Day holiday in the United States.It was directed by German director Roland Emmerich, who co-wrote the script with producer Dean Devlin.
The film begins with the approach of a series of massive spaceships, which many on Earth greet with open arms, looking forward to the first contact with alien life. Unfortunately, these extraterrestrials have not come in peace, and they unleash powerful weapons that destroy most of the world's major cities. Thrown into chaos, the survivors struggle to band together and put up a last-ditch resistance in order to save the human race. As this is a Hollywood film, this effort is led by a group of scrappy Americans, including a computer genius who had foreseen the alien's evil intent, a hot-shot jet pilot, and the President of the United States.
It's the first futuristic disaster movie that's as cute as a button. Which, when all the special effects blow over, is what the viewer like in a monster hit.And they are willing to overlook any flaws that this movie has like thin plot and poor character development.But nevertheless,it has proved to be a a thrilling, spectacle- filled,entertaining and visually stunning movie.