10 More Films Hollywood Needs To Apologize For

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 this time it looks like he’s decided to turn it into a franchise, complete with an open-ended finale that sets up the sequel. He needn’t have bothered because even by the standards of the man who remade Godzilla very badly, Resurgence is pretty dour stuff, a coldly calculated Hollywood “product” that gives its audience no joy.

The film’s attitude to its audience is summed up by the introduction of Brent Spiner’s character, who we now learn wasn’t killed off in the original film but in a coma for exactly twenty years. His awakening coincides with a new alien invasion and faster than you can say “contrivance” it’s business as usual, only minus the fun.