Independence Day
Independence Day Image
See the trailer
Metascore
59 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 18 Critics What's this?

User Score
6.6 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 84 Ratings

Your Score
0 out of 10
Rate this:
  • Starring: Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Will Smith
  • Summary: Mysterious and powerful aliens launch an all-out invasion against the human race. The spectacle begins when massive spaceships appear in Earth's skies. But wonder turns to terror as the ships blast destructive beams of fire down on cities all over the planet. Now the world's only hope lies with a determined band of survivors, uniting for one last strike against the invaders - before it's the end of all mankind. (20th Century Fox)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 18
  3. Negative: 2 out of 18
  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    100
    The alien attack, taking place in several cities at once, is breathtaking...All the same, Independence Day is consistently funny.
  2. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    80
    The aliens, meanwhile, are a fabulously nasty lot of slimy, tentacled, malevolent telepaths, but all their superior technology is no match for our red, white and blue ingenuity. Take that, space bullies!
  3. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    50
    The action is fast, furious, and loaded with explosive effects, but the theme is a regrettable return to the us-against-them paranoia that dominated much science fiction in the cold-war era.
  4. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Scott Rosenberg
    30
    A colossally dumb epic that happily traffics in third-hand imagery and ideas while feeding its audience maintenance level doses of humor, adrenaline and spectacle.

See all 18 Critic Reviews

User Reviews

Write a Review
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 31
  3. Negative: 6 out of 31
  1. Hasriona
    9
    A great sci-fi classic is Independence Day, an alien invasion film which works on many levels. It's humorous in places, and has good, dramatic acting all tied together with good effects and a tense score.… Expand
  2. billruller
    8
    This movie, I definitely don't understand why people hate this movie. Not one bit! Even when Nostalgia Critic reviewed this, I still didn't understand why he hates it. Most of the time it's either jokes, jokes, and...well, jokes. The jet fight and the attack of the White House was awesome, Will Smith was pretty cool, Jeff Goldblum was pretty funny as always since Jurassic Park, and I thought the part when the president goes in the fighter jet to fight the aliens very cool. People say it was stupid, well FTW! This was a very awesome movie, and should be taking more credit than how people treat it.… Expand
  3. GabrielU.
    5
    Despite of total stupidity of this film as scenario, characters, etc, i actually... Don't regret time i had sacrifaced to watch it. Just an avarge, dull, quite epic and almost s-f movie.… Expand
  4. NigelM.
    0
    The only time I ever walked out of a cinema was halfway through this. I can't imagine the second half making up for the first hour of intelligence insulting drivel. I predicted the rest of the story when my mates met me in the pub, almost to the letter. Awful.… Expand

See all 31 User Reviews

Trailers

Current Movie Releases

Full List »
  1. Star Trek Into Darkness
    Metascore: 73
  2. Iron Man 3
    Metascore: 62
  3. 42
    Metascore: 62
  4. Evil Dead (2013)
    Metascore: 57
  5. The Croods
    Metascore: 55
  6. The Great Gatsby
    Metascore: 55
  7. Oblivion
    Metascore: 54
  8. Pain & Gain
    Metascore: 43
  9. G.I. Joe: Retaliation
    Metascore: 41
  10. Olympus Has Fallen
    Metascore: 41
  11. The Host
    Metascore: 35
  12. Tyler Perry's Temptation
    Metascore: 27
  13. Scary Movie 5
    Metascore: 11
All Current Movies »