Review – Independence Day

The wisdom we learned in film school was that films like this were by-products of the cold war, analogies of brave American resistance to alien Soviet aggression. If that was completely true, then I suppose this film would never have been made in the post-Soviet era (at least not before Islamic terrorists took the place of the Red Menace in 2001). So the wisdom we learned was (unfortunately) wrong, and apparently Hollywood makes these swaggering, the-military-is-always-right bits of paranoid fluff because people like them. Still, this one is fairly well crafted, with good special effects and an occasional entertaining moment (such as the whole Area 51 thing). Mildly amusing