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FUN
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how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
35
how much it moved you
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Read from 53 comments (49 from Metacritic, 4 from TMDB reviews) — 8 of them described how it moves.
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“There are a few pretty emotional scenes in the third act”
MatePolcz · Metacritic ↗
“a bit of a slow ****”
UserThomasH · Metacritic ↗
“incredibly paced and suspenseful first act”
Simon-J · Metacritic ↗
“absolute emotional rollercoaster they put President Whitmore through”
Simon-J · Metacritic ↗
“how amazing and tension-filled that intro is”
MovieWarfare · Metacritic ↗
“The film starts directly very action-packed and exciting.”
M0NST3R_G4MING · Metacritic ↗
Read 25 Aug 2026 · confidence 67% · scored on the same 0-100 scale as a community score · how this works
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“The alien attack, taking place in several cities at once, is breathtaking...All the same, Independence Day is consistently funny.”
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle · 100
“A rousing state-of-the-art cartoon capped by an aerial-combat climax that, to its credit, isn't anti-climactic. [2 July 1996, p.D1]”
Mike Clark, USA Today · 88
“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 · 83
“Two reasons it's impossible to resist "Independence Day": because of its pitch-perfect cartoonish dialogue ("Now you're never gonna get to fly the space shuttle if you marry a stripper!") and because the Captain, like Indiana Jones, is so unflappably tough.”
Janet Maslin, The New York Times · 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!”
Maitland McDonagh, TV Guide Magazine · 80
Scores from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, read 24 Aug 2026. Quotes belong to their publications and link to the full reviews.
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“There are a few pretty emotional scenes in the third act”
MatePolczabout 75–100% inread it ↗
“a bit of a slow ****”
UserThomasHabout 0–15% inread it ↗
“incredibly paced and suspenseful first act”
Simon-Jabout 0–33% inread it ↗
“absolute emotional rollercoaster they put President Whitmore through”
Simon-Jabout 33–66% inread it ↗
“Really good watch, would watch again, and can recommend. It's Will Smith fighting invading aliens, and Jeff Goldblum being almost annoyingly smart. The alien aspect of the movie and the story are all great, but there is also a lot of humanizing scenes to keep the audience reminded of for what the Terrans are fighting. I'm sure there is a supercut version that reduces the movie to 45-60 minutes of good old alien fighting and investigation, but it's nothing that's actually worth skipping. ”
Kamurairead it ↗
“**Disaster or alien movie (possibly even action movie) - it just doesn't get better than Independence Day! This 1996 sci-fi action blockbuster is one of the greatest of all time!** When you watch the mega-blockbusters of the 1990s and compare them to each other, it is easy to forget how groundbreaking they really were. Films like Jurassic Park and Independence Day were massively ahead of their time, winning all kinds of awards and launching cinema into a new era of special effects. But Indepe”
The Movie Mobread it ↗
“Very good movie. Funny as well with plenty of action. As they try to save the world from an alien invasion.”
Andre Gonzalesread it ↗
“If you like your sci-fi full of gung-ho machismo then this one ought to cut the mustard. On the face of it, it is quite an engaging story of mankind uniting in the face of overwhelming odds - a sort of blitz spirit. There to save us all from the pending oblivion is Bill Pullman as the President, Jeff Goldblum as the scientist and Will Smith as the epitome of the American "kick-ass" air force pilot. The plot is terrible; the sentiment oozingly American and the script lacking in any kind of subtle”
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