"Top Gun" meets "War of the Worlds" (only there's no Tom Cruise)

Rating: 9/10 (29 August 2007)

This movie is TRULY one of the best and names itself the Science Fiction version of "Top Gun". The actors were great. Will Smith got "jiggy with it" as a hotshot F/A-18 pilot in the movie; Randy Quaid (the older brother of Dennis Quaid) proved to be the comic relief; Bill Pullman's character transformed from a President with the problem of a nation into a reborn veteran; and Jeff Goldblum became more brilliant than ever! The only difference between "Independence Day" and "Top Gun" is that the 2 adversaries were humans and aliens instead of Americans and Soviet pilots. Even this movie let out some political tension: aliens warning humans of obliteration (the "No Peace" scene in the Area 51 laboratory) and nations uniting in order to stop extinction of the human race. The only thing I craved out of this movie is a sequel or a prequel. Period.