Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

Most people think so. 70% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 30%, but audiences disagreed.

We always knew they were coming back. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens’ advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring our world back from the brink of extinction. Wikipedia ↗

Independence Day: Resurgence is a 2016 American science fiction disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich, the long-awaited sequel to his 1996 blockbuster. Set 20 years after the original invasion, Earth has reverse-engineered alien technology to build advanced defenses, but a new, far larger alien mothership arrives seeking the energy source hidden beneath the planet. Without Will Smith, whose character was killed off-screen, the sequel relied on a next-generation cast including Liam Hemsworth, Jessie T.

Usher, and Maika Monroe alongside returning veterans Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, and Vivica A. Fox. The film's massive $3,000-mile mothership and its gravity-manipulating arrival sequence demonstrated the expected Emmerich-scale destruction, but critics and audiences found the sequel lacked the original's novelty and character charm.

Independence Day: Resurgence earned $389 million worldwide on a $165 million budget.