I just don't know.

Rating: Null/10 (1 September 2000)

If any of you have read my review on Battlefield Earth, you'll understand why I can get behind this film. At least this movie had some action that was pretty good.
But at the same time, I felt the way some of you did. I especially agree with the review by Roddy-15, which is a few reviews down from mine, this movie was nothing more than stereotypical characters and the patriot, gung-ho, America the beautiful stuff that really makes me sick. How come just the Americans can come up with the ideals? Why not the Russians, the Chinese, the Africans? Why the Americans?
Why do all the black characters always have to be the ones who have all the slick one liners? I get so sick of that. I think Bill Pullman was to young to play the president, I think some one older should have played the part. Michael Keaton maybe, or Kurt Russell. Maybe even Morgan Freeman. But he might be a little to old to jump into a fighter jet. I don't know.
I did like the acting by most of the actors although Judd Hirsh did get on my nerves playing the old man with little bits of wisdom to spread here and there. Of course I'm not a real big Hirsh fan. Come to think about it, I didn't like any of the cast members from Taxi except Danny DeVito and Christopher Lloyd. But back to the ID4. It was an interesting movie I'll say that much.
Despite the impossibility of the plot, character development and overall feel of the movie (I just don't think things would be that calm if aliens really did land) I still give it a decent rating, 5 out of 10. But you have to remember that I have recently watched this movie after seeing Battlefield Earth, the most awful movie made in 2000, so my view on ID4 may be a little warped. But like I said in the summary, I just don't know.