Both Van Damme and Lundgren are about as interesting as soup cans, so the main appeal of the picture is waiting for these soup cans to puncture or flatten each other in ever more horrific ways.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 26, 2022

...an irresistibly broad setup that's employed to expectedly (and appropriately) larger-than-life effect by Emmerich...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 11, 2021

Fortunately, the characters all behave seriously, frequently stifling any hint of empathy - but their dialogue and actions scream of silliness.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 25, 2020

All brawn, no brains, but grows on you if you can prefer your action in one big, dumb hulking slab of alpha-male aggression.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 20, 2020

Cringe-inducing dialogue? Tick. Lots of shit being blown up? Double tick. Flexing of muscles as the stars of the day indulge in a display of cinematic cock-fighting? Triple tick.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 19, 2019

What Emmerich does do is present some very good action sequences which is probably why he was offered the opportunity to direct Independence Day.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 5, 2019

All the potential of the script's premise is diluted in a footage that is summarized in sequence after sequence of persecutions and uninteresting fights. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 29, 2019

This thick-headed item is miraculously well put together.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 13, 2017

One of my favorite Van Damme movies, and now it's his best franchise.

| Aug 6, 2017

There's a decent bit of escapism in here somewhere, but Emmerich doesn't possess the finesse to make the material rampage as it should.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 9, 2012

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 7, 2011

There are some pretty decent stunts-especially the one where the two main Uni-Sols go rappelling face-first down Hoover Dam-but they hardly make this $23-million turkey worth your eight bucks.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 6, 2010

With no real plot tying them together, the impressively staged big scenes become empty exercises in logistics, while the smaller scenes never develop any momentum.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 3, 2008

Leaves behind almost as many derisive laughs as dead bodies.

Full Review | Nov 3, 2008

It may be little more than an expensive arcade game for overgrown kids, but it moves too fast for critical flak to stick.

| Nov 3, 2008

Mostly this is an amalgam of ideas, images and whole scenes lifted from other movies.

| Jun 24, 2006

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