You know something is wrong when throughout the movie you keep asking questions that begins with "Why" because what you're seeing and experiencing does not make sense.
That's what happened with Independence Day: Resurgence. It's a loud, bombastic movie that actively tried to hide its flaws in the storytelling behind all the explosions and the bigger aliens.
After 20 years, Roland Emmerich has lost what made the first movie a popcorn fun. Even as cheesy as the original script was back then, we cared about the characters and we felt the losses of characters. We held on to the arm rests during the fight sequences and gave out huge sighs of relief when the heroes won and survived.
But for Resurgence, none of that. Not even a little bit. The script was not to blame. It was Emmerich's choices in direction. To have the biggest alien we've ever seen from this universe chasing mindlessly after a bus, and then a single parachuted human, when it clearly had a bigger and more important agenda; is a clear indication of Emmerich's failure here in telling a better story.
Things got so messy that I couldn't even tell where destruction were taking place or who was fighting who during the dog fights in the sky.
Liam Hemsworth and Maika Monroe felt like the weakest links. You can tell the talent lacking in Hemsworth when he's standing beside the more seasoned Jeff Goldblum. And Monroe just felt out of place, with no chemistry at all with Hemsworth.
The subplots between the characters also did not come to a satisfactory progression. Hemsworth and Jessie T. Usher's feud, and Angelababy and Travis Tope's non-start romance, and Goldblum and Charlotte Gainsbourg's rekindling - none of them paid off in the end.
And Brent Spiner's character who could just run around and lift machinery? Emmerich just kept defying logic after logic.
In the end, I couldn't care less when characters dying or when the heroes won the war. I just waited for the movie to end.
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