"Not too believable"

Rating: Null/10 (25 January 1999)

**1/2 out of *****
I discovered something about Devlin and Emmerich with Stargate that I confirmed with ID4 and Godzilla...their films start with good suspense, but they reach a point in wich their products take a dive into the deep oblivion of cliches. They start writing their scripts by thinking of a movie with epic proportions, but by the time they get to the third act, they have made such a mess of the story that they don´t know how to finish it and think of an extremely desperate resolution.
ID4 trailers were amazing. To me, it was the must-see movie of the year. And the movie starts with the beat of a rock music track. Devlin and Emmerich knew how to capture a sense of reality on the scenes of the chaos and fear the arrival of spaceships the size of cities would cause. Even the cities´destruction scenes were amazing, but after that, the movie failed to surprise me. And the lines! What´s wrong with you guys?: "The clock is ticking" "Time´s up" "Now that´s what I call a close encounter" "You know how I like to make an entrance"
Here in Mexico, we call those kind of lines..."Gringadas" But I know it´s unfair to blame all americans for the things a reduced group of people do. I usually reply: "Why is Mexico never included when something happens in a worldwide level movie?" I´m glad we weren´t included on this one. At least the thought of being one of the few countries that weren´t destroyed, makes me think it´s really good to be a small country after all.
Then I tried to visualize The President Of The United States aboard a fighting airplane defending his country... Hard to imagine. There´s also one point of the movie that troubles me... With all that technology, wouldn´t the aliens have an anti-virus for a simple human computer virus? Kind of ilogical, isn´t it?
I Know a lot of americans clapped and cheered on the movie theater... patriotism is a rough feeling. I would´ve too, even cried with the president´s speech if I had been an american or if the movie had been mexican...I have to accept that. O.K., the special effects, were great, but a movie cannot rely only on it´s FX. Everything this movie left me with, was one question...How many times has the United States saved the world? (cinematographically speaking)...