A fun dumb film

Rating: 8/10 (22 April 2008)

I was around 10/11-years-old when this film came out and it still appeals to that part of me. The basic plot of the film is that alien spaceships suddenly come to Earth and hover over major cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Washington, London, Moscow etc. The American government debate on what to do and how to communicate with the aliens. At the same time, a senior engineer at a television company, David (Jeff Goldblum), discovers strangle goings on and suspects the aliens. He realises that they were using the world's satellites against them and were planning to attack the Earth. After racing off the save the American President the aliens attacked and destroyed the world's major cities and planned to attack other cities such as Houston. When the American tried to fight the aliens were far stronger and technologically advanced.
The film is dumb, but that is why it works. You can just swing your brain off and just watch it. Its meant to be loud, its meant to have a lot of action and explosions. It had good special effects for its time and it helped Will Smith from a TV star to a major movie star. This film is Roland Emmerich's best. He is German director who is famous for directing big budget action films. He only other good film was the Day After Tomorrow.
This film does have faults, but it is just a fun movie and to me a symbol of the mid 90s.