2013 · sci-fi · action · space
Independence Daysaster
Directed by W.D. Hogan1h 26m2013
When Earth is attacked by a hostile alien force, a small town firefighter and a rogue SETI scientist team up to activate the only technology capable of defeating the invaders.
Our read: Independence Daysaster (2013) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive sci-fi · action · space entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured sci-fi / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
- epic-stakes
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