Entertaining but unbelievable

Rating: 8/10 (29 June 2015)

I will admit, I have loved Independence Day ever since the movie came out. The movie has a good story with a great set of special effects.
In the beginning; when the when the SETI guy hears a radio signal while he's listening to REM's song "It's the end of the world as we know it", I call that a classic moment. Then including Jeff Goldblum's entry to the movie and the aliens sudden invasions to blow-up the cities. The fight back is rather entertaining, but the movie starts going down once they go into the whole Area 51 alien myth (a place that in real life isn't even called Area 51 officially).
I love the movie up to the the stuff with Will Smith, his character has some of the most ridiculous macho-man scenes, in rather unbelievable action scenes along with his tribute to the tobacco companies. Along side Jeff Goldblum's saving of the world with an overnight written computer virus for the aliens is rather unbelievable, especially since he starts this immediately after he was tripping around drunk.
If anything, a movie like Independence Day is 100 times better than movies like E.T. and Contact. Although, Independence Day always makes me think of a quote from the movie's producer (Bill Pay) who made a quote in a classic Discovery Channel documentary "Inside Area 51": "I, in my heart, would like to think that there are aliens at Area 51, but don't really believe it until I see more."