Great Action Film

Rating: 7/10 (16 December 2010)

In 1996 the movie Independence Day was released. Also known as ID4 this movie starts out with a scene of the first man on the moon and that the American's came in peace for all mankind. On July 2nd aliens from another planet enter the earth's atmosphere with their mother spaceship and many other smaller spacecraft attached. They plan to invade and destroy the world starting with all major cities. At first the Americans try to come in peace and send a message to the alien mother ship. They respond by blowing up the helicopter and all other surrounding aircraft. At this time president Thomas J. Whitmore (Bill Pullman) learns by help of David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum) that the aliens are using our own satellite system against us and will destroy the world in a short period of time. The president then orders everyone to leave the cities and prepare for destruction. Then the alien's strike they blow up and destroy major cities all around the world in their first attack. The United States set up a counter attack to destroy the mother ship when they learn that the alien space craft has a protective shield that none of our weapons can penetrate. U.S. air force captain Steven Hiller (Will Smith) is one of the only few survivors in this counter attack and he beings down a small alien space craft and captures an alien and brings him to a secret lab/ army base called area 51. The aliens continue destroying cities and president Whitmore is forced to engage in nuclear warfare with the aliens to destroy them. However the protective shield around the alien space craft cannot be penetrated by a nuclear bomb. Many of Americans have died at this point and the president and every other world leader is distressed. At this point David Levinson who figured out they were using the worlds satellite system against us realizes that the protective shield around the space craft's works off of an advanced computer system. By giving that system a computer virus the shield will be dropped and then the military can attack them. They plan an attack with the whole world on many different space craft because once the mother ship is infected with the virus then all the smaller ships will be also. Capitan Steven Hiller teams up with David and Steven will fly the recovered alien spacecraft from area 51 into the mother ship and David will implant the computer virus. The rest of able Americans and other pilots around the world are ready to attack. Once inside the mother ship Steven and David get locked in to the system and implant the virus. Their protective shields are now ineffective and the Americans begin to attack the smaller ships. They destroy them and then Capitan Hiller and David set off their nuclear bomb in the mother ship and they fly out in their spacecraft. The mother ship explodes into millions of pieces and David and Steven make a safe landing back on earth and return to their families. The aliens have been defeated. The central theme of this movie is heart and never giving up. The human race did not give up once on fighting for their freedom. Even after many counter attacks failed they proved that they were not going to go down without a fight and they all came together and worked together to save their world from destruction. Throughout this movie the sound effects of the explosions and the flying shrapnel and fire make this movie very realistic. After many counter attacks have failed you can see the distress on the president's face in a close up when he gives the order to nuke them. Overall this movie is very well written, action packed and very realistic. Watching this movie feels like you are really there and you become part of it because it is so intense. This was a great movie and I would recommend it to anyone.