Take a second look, it's not that bad.

Rating: 6/10 (21 July 2003)

I have heard many people ripping into Independence Day as one of the worst films that they have seen in a long time, I disagree. In 1997 the film won an Academy Award for best visual effects, and was nominated for sound. For the time the CGI in this film was amazing, and the sound wasn't too bad, the nominations and awards were deserving. The film was also the movie that basically launched Will Smith's carreer into stardom, that says something too. I am having to write a college paper on the movie, which has caused me to watch the movie three times in one day, and I must say that the acting hold through the entire movie, and the storyline isn't as bad as one might initally think, The President isn't overly agressive, and violent minded, the aliens are obviously greatly superior, and there isn't too much time taken in Star Trek style explaining, rather the problems are shown to be solved or explained within the natural dialouge. Yeah, there are holes in the story, yeah this isn't the greatest movie ever made, and yeah some of the dialouge is corny, but remember it's an action movie, and made to be fun, not groundbreaking or earth shattering, just fun. And as a fun movie it has succeeded, when I saw Independence Day in theaters it was the last movie I ever saw where the audience actually cheered, when people cheer for characters how can it all be bad, besides, it's no Battlefield Earth...