A great Popcorn movie

Rating: 10/10 (21 July 2003)

Independence Day has no smart script, thats for sure. It actually has one of the silliest scripts I've ever seen.
But still: It is a fantastic film.
The film is very entertaining, epic and simply a perfect popcorn movie. It never tries to be intelligent and it never acts as if it was intelligent, wich is something that must be considered.
ID4 doesn't want to bring us a smart and philosophical story, it doesn't want to make us think about anything after we left the cinema and for sure it doesn't want to make us think while watching the film.
It is a pure popcorn film which wants only one thing: To deliver scales of destruction and battle unseen till that time. And thats what it did.
I remember the day I saw this film in cinema and the first alien ship flies over the skyline of LA. I also remember the firestorm sequence and the aerial battle sequences. This film is just full of scenes that are as memorable as hardly anything else. Actually, this film contains some of the coolest scenes I've ever seen and I enjoy it every time I watch it again.
A script is not everything in a movie, and the rest of the film is undeniable top notch.