10 Dreariest Film Sequels Released In 2016 (So Far)

Say what you like about the original, but that shot of aliens destroying the White House made it a fixture of pop culture. Twenty years later, the most remarkable thing about this belated sequel is how much it looks like every other Roland Emmerich movie.

Following two flops (Anonymous and White House Down) Emmerich’s gone back to his biggest hit and produced another movie that wants to have it both ways, attempting to stun the viewer with huge effects sequences and corny drama while also being flippant and superficial. So while the aliens are laying waste to another city, Jeff Goldblum quips about how they like to destroy landmarks et cetera.

It’s apt that Goldblum returns because it shows how much worse The Lost World: Jurassic Park could’ve been if Spielberg had waited two decades to go back to the well, then treated the original film with an awe and reverence it doesn’t really deserve. Despite the film's critical and commercial failure, Emmerich is still talking up the possibility of a third movie. Good luck with that.