![]() ![]() Usher), the son of Will Smith’s character from ID4. Both are friends with Dylan Hiller (Jessie T. Ready to take her on is a new generation of feisty, trigger-happy young’uns, including war orphan turned hotshot pilot Jake Morrison (Liam Hemsworth), who’s engaged to Whitmore’s all-grown-up daughter Patricia (the compelling Maika Monroe, from It Follows), a soldier in her own right. (She calls our civilization “primitive” because we still have bodies.) They look like Eve in Pixar’s WALL-E crossed with a giant volleyball, but with the voice of a teenage girl and a not dissimilar attitude. Turns out he’s right: There is a third set of ETs floating about, which take the form of shiny white levitating orbs. At least she gives the order with a heavy heart, even though chief alien detection expert David Levinson (a returning Jeff Goldblum) advises against destroying the newcomer because it doesn’t look like it was made by the same alien race. president ( Sela Ward).Įven though the upside of the last alien invasion is apparently that we’ve had 20 years of peaceful coexistence and no war, it would seem that America is still top dog because it’s Madam President who gets the deciding vote as to whether to shoot the crap out of a new alien spacecraft when it appears on the horizon. It’s 20 years on from the events of the first film, and on an alternative version of Earth there are hover planes using some kind of anti-gravity gizmo, observatories and defense systems on the moon, while a Hillary Clinton-like woman serves as U.S. Huge, leggy insectoid queens - and no, we’re not talking about drag superstars - are at the center of the sequel. But Resurgence arguably will do more to promote positive images of gay men by featuring Brent Spiner and John Storey as a pair of devoted lovers willing to die for each other and humanity. It’s noble of him to want to try and give something back to the gay community with a low-budget misfire like last year’s LGBT history lesson Stonewall. This sort of entertainment is his happy place. Although the pic’s 120-minute running time sometimes feels draggier than its predecessor’s 145-minute sprawl, returning writer-director-producer Roland Emmerich’s knack for the pomp of vast-scaled destruction, fist-pumping moments of triumph and cornpone jocularity remains undiminished. The main thing filmgoers will be looking for from Resurgence is bang-for-buck entertainment, and that it delivers reasonably successfully. ![]()
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