This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The whole secret premise of Independence Day: Resurgence was to actually use it to set up what Roland Emmerich clearly wanted to make: a giant space opera where humans joined one side of an intergalactic war. Obviously that didn't work out, in part because Resurgence was one of the worst pieces of garbage in recent memory. Since that he did Midway, which was also a passion project of sorts and put him in touch with Chinese investors that contributed here.…