Independence Day - 20th Century Fox
"This is the sort of movie where the President of the United States climbs into a jet plane and single-handedly fights off an alien invasion force. If that sounds like your cup of tea, then you won't be disappointed, otherwise perhaps it's worth renting a Louis Malle movie instead.
Personally, I thought it was amazing. Leave your reality-and-hokiness meter at the door of the theatre, because it'll go haywire. If you can enjoy a movie without it, then you'll have a ball. Yes, this movie is filled with more lucky coincidences than all of the works of Dickens combined, images and lines ripped straight from dozens of other sources and "serious" scenes that are so campy you'd think they were from a Saturday Night Live skit. But it works.
This movie has two big things going for it; it's terribly earnest and it really delivers on its promises. Independence Day relates a big, bloated, ridiculous story, without apology, in an era when few films have the guts to do this. It combines a heartfelt, patriotic zeal with more mass destruction than I ever thought was possible. It's an over-enthused, fireworks-toting tomboy of a film, whose gung-ho sense of fun pushes at and eventually topples that part of us which knows better than to enjoy this sort of nonsense." - Patrick McCray.
