Independence Day
June 25, 1996 in theaters
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.
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"I'm not saying it's a coincidence. It's clearly an alien attack."
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Will Smith improvised the line 'Welcome to Earth' after punching the alien -- it became one of the most quoted lines of the 90s.
THE VERDICT
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The film that defined the 1990s blockbuster at its most maximalist -- enormous in scale, unabashedly patriotic, and entirely sincere about its own preposterousness. Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum are perfectly cast against each other, and the White House destruction sequence landed with genuine impact at the time of release. The film is not interested in plausibility and doesn't need to be. A summer spectacle that understood its own genre completely and delivered exactly what it promised.
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