Welcome to our first-time watching as we react to Independence Day (1996). Directed by Roland Emmerich, this film takes us on a wild ride through a global alien invasion. The aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy Earth. Fighting superior technology, mankind’s best weapon is the will to survive. Independence Day also known as ID4 is a 1996 American science fiction action film directed and written by Roland Emmerich The film stars an ensemble cast of Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Margaret Colin, Randy Quaid, Robert Loggia, and Vivica A. Fox. The film follows disparate groups of people who converge in the Nevada desert in the aftermath of a worldwide attack by a powerful extraterrestrial race. With the other people of the world, they launch a counterattack on July 4—Independence Day in the United States. We hope that you enjoy our reactions, commentary and review as we discuss the film’s mind-blowing special effects, the need to go faster, intense action scenes, and nail-biting moments of survival that has us rooting for humanity as they overcome each challenge. If you’d like to support the channel and gain access to the full length reaction become a member of our patreon https://bit.ly/3ICVrJ6 Watch our reactions early! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiCUz1bHid4H9mu6g2IOjXg/join #IndependenceDay #Reaction #TheMediaKnights #ID4

Official Trailer for Independence Day (1996) Independence Day is a 1996 American military science fiction disaster film about an alien invasion of Earth. The narrative focuses on a disparate group of people who converge in the Nevada desert and, along with the rest of the human population, participate in a last-chance counterattack on July 4 — the same date as the Independence Day holiday in the United States. It was directed by German director Roland Emmerich, who co-wrote the script with producer Dean Devlin. While promoting Stargate in Europe, Emmerich came up with the idea for the film when fielding a question about his own belief in the existence of alien life. He and Devlin decided to incorporate a large-scale attack when noticing that aliens in most invasion films travel long distances in outer space only to remain hidden when reaching Earth. Principal photography for the film began in July 1995 in New York City, and the film was officially completed on June 20, 1996. The film was scheduled for release on July 3, 1996, but due to the high level of anticipation for the movie, many theaters began showing it on the evening of July 2, 1996, the same day the film begins. The film’s combined domestic and international box office gross is $816,969,268, which at one point was the second-highest worldwide gross of all-time. It holds the 33rd highest worldwide gross of a movie all-time, and was at the forefront of the large-scale disaster film and science fiction [More]