Independence Daysaster

Not content with just making a terrible film, the Syfy channel went for the gold and gave Independence Daysaster a terrible name as well.

When it comes to Syfy Original films you never have to wonder if the movie will be good or not, it will be bad. The question instead is if it will be bad enough to be worth watching. Unfortunately this one falls short mostly because it is just so incredibly boring.

The President, played by That Think You Do's Tom Everett Scott, is heading home for some sort of celebration. His brother, played by Ryan Merriman, is a fireman there. And the aliens are attacking from the sky and from underground as well. Their hometown also happens to be home to the world's best hacker, in fact there are two of them, and a SETI lab, and a SETI scientist who predicted this and is ready for the attack. Now, even the best action movies rely on a little coincidence of the right people being in the right place at the right time, but Independence Daysaster goes for the gusto and puts all of these people coincidently in a small town in the middle of nowhere. Ugh.

But what about the aliens? Full CGI flying machines and digging machines with no actual alien being seen ever. And the flying machines don't even have guns, they instead are flying spheres that open in their equator to reveal an energy saw blade so they can cut things in half and explode them in completely unconvincing CGI explosions. The effects here aren't Birdemic bad, but they aren't exactly good either. It all looks fake.

And once all the right people conveniently meet up, the movie culminates in the worst executed sacrifice and a resolution that is yawn inducing.

If you didn't catch Independence Daysaster when it aired on Syfy last year, there is no reason to watch it on DVD now.