Plot summary

For two long decades of peace--after the devastating alien invasion that threatened to obliterate the Earth and all life forms in Independence Day (1996)--the world has been steeling itself against an inevitable second wave of extraterrestrial attacks. As the nations' experts and the director of the Earth Space Defence program, David Levinson, work in unison, combing the skies for signs of hostile activity, in the meantime, an invisible and even greater spaceship flotilla enters our solar system, bent on harvesting our planet's resources. This time, it's up to the old heroes--including the former President of the United States, Thomas Whitmore--and the next generation of the Earth's guardians to defend humanity, when all hope seems lost. Can the earthlings emerge victorious in the ultimate showdown?—Nick Riganas