Independence Day [Blu-ray]

Independence Day [Blu-ray]
by Roland Emmerich

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Actor: Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Judd Hirsch, Robert Loggia, Will Smith
Director: Roland Emmerich
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Cinematographer: Karl Walter Lindenlaub
Composer: David Arnold
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Cantonese (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 145 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-11
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox

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Movie Review: Theater release -- not director's cut
Summary: 4 Stars

Independence Day is pretty much a perfect example of a "Summer Blockbuster" done exceedingly well. Sit back and enjoy very well done entertainment. The one caveat on this particular BluRay release is that it's the Theatrical Release and _not_ the Director's Cut. That's a big disappointment because the Director's Cut was significantly better in terms of providing lots of little vignettes which deepened that standard Summer Blockbuster story line. Hopefully they'll eventually release the Director's Cut on BluRay.

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Summary of Independence Day [Blu-ray]

One of the biggest box office hits of all time delivers the ultimate encounter when 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 determinded band of survivors, uniting for one last strike against the invaders - before it's the end of all mankind.

In Independence Day, a scientist played by Jeff Goldblum once actually had a fistfight with a man (Bill Pullman) who is now president of the United States. That same president, late in the film, personally flies a jet fighter to deliver a payload of missiles against an attack by extraterrestrials. Independence Day is the kind of movie so giddy with its own outrageousness that one doesn't even blink at such howlers in the plot. Directed by Roland Emmerich, Independence Day is a pastiche of conventions from flying-saucer movies from the 1940s and 1950s, replete with icky monsters and bizarre coincidences that create convenient shortcuts in the story. (Such as the way the girlfriend of one of the film's heroes--played by Will Smith--just happens to run across the president's injured wife, who are then both rescued by Smith's character who somehow runs across them in alien-ravaged Los Angeles County.) The movie is just sheer fun, aided by a cast that knows how to balance the retro requirements of the genre with a more contemporary feel. --Tom Keogh

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