Sensing this odd human condition which connects spectacular explosions with brotherly love, director Roland Emmerich satisfies it perfectly with the most explosive sci-fi epic ever made. It's big fun from start to finish.
Survivors band together to find a way to fight back.
I don't blame you - the filmmakers chose to keep the story moving quickly and fail to explain very much. Let's see if I can clear things up a bit - but since I'm making this up from the information in the movie, I could be wrong here and there. If you haven't seen ID4 yet, you may want to skip reading this until you do. Man, that mothership was big. Probably because of the kind of propulsion system they use.