Every Will Smith Movie Ranked Worst To Best
8. Independence Day (1996)
One of Smith's most beloved 90s classics, Independence Day is over-the-top, overlong, silly, melodramatic and driven home by typically batsh*t Roland Emmerich disaster tropes. It's also utterly fantastic escapism with a dynamo cast that make everything fly off the screen.
The film that cemented Smith as a star, the alien thriller hinges almost entirely on his modern-day hero performance (though Jeff Goldblum actually looks far cooler with that cigar), so much so that the sequel was unable to properly work in his absence.
As far as disaster films go, Independence Day remains one of the most purely enjoyable ever made, and the fact that it worked is simply a testament to Smith's natural screen presence. He looks like he's been there forever.