Fresh
Splendidly cheesy entertainment.
Carol Buckland, CNN.com
Independence Day
The question of whether or not we are alone in the universe has been answered.
1996 · 2h 25m · PG-13
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Directed by
Roland Emmerich
Overview
Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it becomes increasingly clear that a force of incredible magnitude has arrived. Its mission: total annihilation over the Fourth of July weekend. The last hope to stop the destruction is an unlikely group of people united by fate and unimaginable circumstances.
Director and cast
- Roland Emmerich Director
- Will Smith as Captain Steven Hiller
- Bill Pullman as President Thomas J. Whitmore
- Jeff Goldblum as David Levinson
- Mary McDonnell as First Lady Marilyn Whitmore
- Judd Hirsch as Julius Levinson
- Robert Loggia as General William Grey
- Randy Quaid as Russell Casse
- Margaret Colin as Constance Spano
- James Rebhorn Cast
- Harvey Fierstein Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
69%
Tomatometer
Fresh
It's the first futuristic disaster movie that's as cute as a button. Which, when all the special effects blow over, is what we Americans like in a monster hit.
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
Fresh
If I were a 10-year-old boy, I'd probably think it was the coolest movie going.
David Ansen, Newsweek
Fresh
As unavoidably entertaining as it is hopelessly cornball.
Todd McCarthy, Variety
Rotten
Maybe the moviemakers' mission was to boldly go where everyone in Hollywood has gone before: the bank.
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
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