I read in the Trivia of IMDb that Susan Sarandon rejected the role of the president in the movie because she found the script incomprehensible. Incomprehensible is the word that best describes this film, where in a storm of clichés and pointless action every sense of storytelling is dismissed.I wonder how some critics found it entertaining, since it gets boring very soon, and I even wonder how could it be that some people in the production found it possible that it would be a profitable-not to say good-movie(of course the last chapter in the Jurassic saga was trivial, but it gained a lot of money, but the problem here is that the movie looks like a joke).On the other hand, in the second half of the movie, after giving up trying to follow the story or the movements of the cast(who is where and who goes where),I started enjoying the movie, exactly as a big joke(with laughs too), focusing on the separate scenes,almost in a dreamlike surrealistic fashion, as if something was just what it was, with no connection with the story.In other words, I was glad to watch the process. In my imagination ,it became a kind of cult show I connected with Carpenter's Dark star(in another context and scale)and with the sci-fi comics of the 50s, with touches of parody.The problem is I am not sure if these things were in the intentions of the makers.There are some signs that maybe they were:the reference to Citizen Cane and the Rosebud, the phrase with which the movie closes(straight from the end of Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars).So, I am not disappointed at all, and I am even interested in what will happen next(if there is a sequel after all).However, I do not believe many people will share my kind of enjoyment with the movie.We are not accustomed to so expensive and ambiguous jokes.
Review of Independence Day: Resurgence
