This week on Myopia Movies, we return to a world that once united humanity… and immediately wonder if we should have just let the aliens win the first time. It’s Independence Day: Resurgence, the long-awaited sequel that answers the question: “What if we did the same movie again, but louder and with fewer speeches people remember?”

Join us as we revisit Earth, now armed with alien tech, global cooperation, and absolutely no plan when the aliens come back bigger, angrier, and apparently very into drilling.

We ask the hard questions:

Can David Levinson save the world again using vibes, intuition, and a laptop from 1996?
Is President Whitmore still giving speeches, or just spiritually hovering over this movie wishing he were?
And at what point does a spaceship become so large that it’s less of a threat and more of a weather pattern?

We break down Roland Emmerich’s return to large-scale destruction, the film’s attempt at passing the torch to a new generation, and why sometimes “more” doesn’t actually mean “better.”

Also: we try to track the plot, which mostly involves characters running toward explosions while explaining things that don’t make the explosions make any more sense.

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How will Independence Day: Resurgence hold up?

End Credits

Directed by: Roland Emmerich

Starring:

Liam Hemsworth as Jake Morrison
Jeff Goldblum as David Levinson
Bill Pullman as President Thomas J. Whitmore
Jessie T. Usher as Dylan Hiller
Maika Monroe as Patricia Whitmore
Travis Tope as Charlie Miller
Charlotte Gainsbourg as Dr. Catherine Marceaux