5) Independence Day: Resurgence
Once you heard that Will Smith wouldn’t be involved, you just knew Independence Day: Resurgence would be a dud, didn’t you? It’s unfair to judge a book by its cover of course, but we always had a bad feeling about this one, and it turns out we were right. While there’s no doubt that Roland Emmerich is just as adept at creating visual spectacle as he was all those years ago, this mindless, bland and completely inept sequel is a failure on almost every count.
To put it lightly, Resurgence is more of less one big “here we go again!” moment on repeat, with the entire cast and crew clearly hoping that the nostalgia is enough to distract viewers from the horribly generic story that’s playing out on screen. Lacking the tension and charisma, not to mention the fun, of the original, this sci-fi blockbuster could be classified as nothing but pure popcorn entertainment, but even that would be too kind.
Independence Day: Resurgence is an ugly sequel, one that was lazily slapped together and offers nothing of value. If you’re looking for alien invasion flicks from 2016, you can do much, much better than this.