![]() ![]() Resolute, under the watchful eye of the Vulcan Lt. In practice, this means that Star Trek: Resurgence feels an awful lot like an episode of the TV show, just one where you’re in control.Īt the beginning of the demo, I took control of Carter Diaz, an enlisted engineer on the U.S.S. You can’t simply save and get a do-over you’re stuck with what you choose. It’s a CGI extravaganza in which character and plot don’t mean as much as the amount of man-hours it took to create that giant Frisbee ship.What you say will change how other characters react to you over time, and certain choices can change how the story plays out. ID: Resurgence has its funny moments (there’s a throwaway Star Trek reference that had me in stitches) and its visual effects are spectacular in a gratuitous sort of way, but this isn’t great entertainment. I’m also tired of the Roland Emmerich stockpile of reliable but clichéd character types. They’ve done their job for the better part of a century, and I personally have had enough of buildings collapsing and roads splitting open to engulf unfortunate civilians. I think it’s time to pull the plug on disaster movies. Usher), who is the son of the Will Smith character from the first movie and usually reacts to large-scale terrors as if, oh my god, he’s about to be assaulted by a green screen! There’s also an engineer pal ( Travis Tope) who provides the movie’s Douchebag Relief by creepily ogling at the sexy Chinese pilot ( Angelababy), who’s been dropped into the plot because diversity is important. They have a mutual pilot friend, Dylan ( Jessie T. She does a lot of running and crying, which has long been the purpose of adolescent girls in disaster movies. His girlfriend ( Maika Monroe) works in The White House and used to be a pilot. Hemsworth is your typical wise-cracking macho saviour. ![]() None of these newcomers are effective in the roles assigned to them. Hemsworth plays a pilot who’s saddled with one of those generic action hero names and wears an action hero stubble like it’s the fourth of July. Dave arrives and predicts total annihilation again, as if the alien ship the size of Africa, latched on to the planet’s surface, wasn’t proof enough.Ĭut to a space station on the moon, where Liam Hemsworth and his buddies are fighting through thin characterisation and hammy dialogue to emerge as the movie’s true stars. It’s a neat trade-off.Īll the leaders of the world summon David Levinson (Goldblum), who you will recall saved the world before by infecting the aliens with a computer virus from a USB flash drive. ![]() But in Roland Emmerich land, all this does is toss some landmark buildings into the next continent and decimate entire populations. That’s until a ship a bajillion times the size of the mothership in the first Independence Day looms over planet Earth like a parasitic Frisbee and sinks its gigantic claws deep into the ground the effects of which should cause the Earth to rupture and split at the seams. That’s probably because they’ve spent the last twenty years preparing for an alien invasion and think they’ve got it all covered. Clearly none of them have seen Jurassic Park(1993), or their own prequel. All the world leaders and supposed intellectuals in Independence Day: Resurgence glare at him as if he’s a nutcase, then chuck his opinions in the bin, all before they’re either incinerated, stabbed, or shot. The man has survived transmutation, dinosaurs (twice), talking domestic pets, aliens… and he still goes unheeded. You’re an absolute fool if you don’t listen to Jeff Goldblum. Independence Day: Resurgence is less a resurgence and more a redundance.
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