The high budget film of the TV movie Independence Day ID4

singe-3

Independence Day ID4 was probably the film I have had the most excited anticipation for. V had produced cracking entertainment for a TV movie with limited budget, actors that would go on to horrendous straight to video movies and unknown directors. What a great movie ID4 was going to be with the opposite of all that. Er...  Everyone came out of the cinema saying it was just a crap version of V. And it was. But where I am sure they were pretending V was not up to much, it not being very cool to like 80s TV programmes, what they really acknowledged was how good V is.

Everyone knows that TV series are not as good as they used to be. This one is so good it really should have been a film. It is probably too long for some people's filmic attention span but that just means more interesting characterisations for the rest of us. It is probably also too intelligent for some people's expectations of a film but that just makes them stupid. So much is covered and so many styles are incorporated even to the extent of including a hilariously bad rendition of the Star Wars theme when the aliens land.

As a final word on how good it is, compare the special effects of V with ID4. Apart from the alien effects, V's are better. As for the computer game....

score 10/10

singe-3 3 May 2001

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