Whoa what a whopper! Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin unveil their HUGE
alien invasion flick with bravado and verve. So much bravado in fact
that you forget it's all recycled cliche. Bill Pullman is President,
Jeff Goldblum is a science boff (again) and Will Smith makes his career
as a buff fighter pilot. The whole thing hangs on a jingoistic
revisionist US mentality, which is almost an apology for past
atrocities: sorry about previous incursions, but we'll save the world
against this darn aliens. YEAH! Actually, it's all good fun if you take
it in the right vein.
