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10/18/08
Independence Day (1996)
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Reviews Counted: 53
Fresh: 33
Rotten:20
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Consensus: The plot is thin and so is character development, but as a thrilling, spectacle-filled summer movie, Independence Day delivers.
Theatrical Release: Jul 3, 1996 Wide
Synopsis: With a $71 million budget and mind-blowing special effects, INDEPENDENCE DAY is a grand, high-tech throwback to such films of the 1950s as THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL and WAR OF THE WORLDS. Here, aliens, in numerous gargantuan... [More]
Starring: Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Margaret Colin
Director: Roland Emmerich
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Reviews for Independence Day
Top Critic
Basically, this is almost perfect realization of the movie you eagerly anticipated when, as a kid, you saw some poster or coming attractions trailer for a 1950s-style alien invasion movie ...
07/07/08
Top Critic
Top Critic It's the first futuristic disaster movie that's as cute as a button. Which, when all the special effects blow over, is what we Americans like in a monster hit.
03/05/08
Top Critic If I were a 10-year-old boy, I'd probably think it was the coolest movie going.
03/05/08
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Top Critic
Maybe the moviemakers' mission was to boldly go where everyone in Hollywood has gone before: the bank.
03/05/08
Top Critic No matter how ludicrous and coincidental the plot gets, it never takes itself seriously.
03/05/08
The earnestness, the effects, and the notion of a whole world forgetting its differences to defeat a common foe carry a certain charm.
03/05/08
Top Critic Forget government conspiracies about aliens -- what about the entertainment media's conspiracy to persuade America that this movie doesn't suck?
08/13/07
No one who wants to see this movie needs me to recommend it to them, but if anyone wants to know, I say stay home and rent one of those other movies on video.
02/17/07
Everything feels anti-climactic after the fireworks, but the moral is clear: it's the end of the world as we know it. And we feel fine.
02/09/06
Top Critic
The most spectacular and intriguing sci-fi action film since the 'Star Wars' trilogy. (published 7-6-96)
12/28/04
Finally, science fiction the way it used to be: rousing, cosmically xenophobic and ferociously patriotic... Take that, space bullies!
07/30/03
Big, dumb, glossy blockbuster designed for mass appeal is massively appalling.
11/07/02
It has the big budget and SFX of a 90s flick, but it still feels like a 1950 B-movie, and not even a good one. Now that's sad
09/10/02
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