Seen worse...but this is bad!

Rating: Null/10 (31 August 2000)

When I saw this flick at the cinemas...I thought it was okay! The special effects were cool! The aliens I guess were okay! You see, I really wanted to like this film- I was hoping it be one of the greatest sci-fictions of all time! So I forgave it at first....then I thought about, and eventually I rented it again!
What can I say? Wanting to like a film, and liking a film are two entirely different things! ID4 sucked! World destruction should not be light-hearted as in "millions of people died but hey no worries", we'll still crack jokes, we'll still win! We ain't afraid of these aliens cause they're like locusts and even though they wiped out half the human race we gonna kill em in less than a week! Uggghh! Need I go on!
The concept is great! The whole idea of aliens wiping out a planet could make a trilogy, let alone one film. If you've seen this film and you honestly think you could have done better- then it must have been rubbish! Roland Emmerich is certainly a good director though, he knows how to make visually stunning scenes in ID4, I'll give him that!But his other film, The Patriot was way better than this!!!
And what's with all the token characters though? Let's make a film with every stereotypical character. Really? And where was the rest of the world in this film?
Anyway I'm probably covering old ground here! Maybe the film wasn't meant to be taken seriously?! But personally I think you could really make something seriously science-fiction and epic with ID4's concept, but not it's lame aliens! Although I can't say this is the worse film I've seen- I kinda liked some moments- it's still pretty bad! Anyway, for the visual effects and the cool battle scenes- **1/2 out of *****!