Independence Day (film)

Independence Day is an American action movie about an attempted alien takeover of the Earth. The movie features several scenes of major American landmarks being destroyed by the aliens, such as the U.S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles, California, the Empire State Building and the White House. The film's success was partially credited to an extensive marketing campaign which began with a dramatic commercial during Super Bowl XXX. This movie was scheduled for release on Wednesday, July 3, 1996, but due to high level of anticipation for the film, many theaters began showing it on the evening of July 2, the same day the action in the film begins.

Plot

The world is in shock on July 2 of an unspecified year, as an alien ship of mindboggling proportions enters the Earth's orbit and deploys several smaller ships that settle over many major cities over the world. With technology thousands of years more advanced than humanity's, they quickly destroy several of the world's major cities, killing millions. Conventional missiles and nuclear weapons are to no avail, as the alien ships are strongly shielded by impenetrable force fields. The President of the United States, a veteran of the Persian Gulf War, leads the human resistance from Area 51, where the military has kept an alien fighter that crashed at Roswell in 1947. The movie climaxes on July 4 as the Earthlings use the fighter to infiltrate the mothership and activate a computer virus to disrupt the shield, opening a window of opportunity for humans to strike back.

Related Topics:
Force field - Persian Gulf War - Area 51 - Computer virus

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The film was based on the 80s TV series "V".

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