We're just a few days away from Independence Day: Resurgence's North American debut, and reviews are starting to come in. So far, the critical response has been mixed.

　　Independence Day: Resurgence is set two decades after the events of the first movie and features another alien invasion on Earth. It sees the return of both Jeff Goldblum and Bill Pullman's characters, though Will Smith's character has died since the first film.

　　The Independence Day sequel opens on Friday, June 24. It currently sits at a cumulative score of 49 on GameSpot sister site Metacritic.

　　We've rounded up a collection of reviews to give you a wider view of the critical reception. You can check them out below.

　　Film: Independence Day: ResurgenceDirector: Roland EmmerichDistributor: 20th Century FoxRelease Date: June 24Rating: PG-13

GameSpot

"Like Jurassic World before it, Resurgence is a throwback that feels like a slightly off-key greatest hits. Credit where it’s due, it works overtime to outstrip the effects-driven extravaganza of the first, but it feels like it loses the point along the way." -- Luke Lancaster [Full review]

　　

Empire -- 4/5

"As spectacular as you'd hope from a sequel to the 1996 planet-toaster, and as amusingly cheesy. You'll enjoy yourself enough that you won't even miss Will Smith." -- Dan Jolin [Full review]

　　

The Telegraph -- 2/5

"The threat only becomes palpable and human-scaled again in the film's surprisingly well-staged giant monster finale, in which a school bus with Goldblum at the wheel is chased across the desert by what's effectively the creature from Cloverfield with braids. It's consummately stupid, but at that point, stupid feels like an improvement." -- Robbie Collin [Full review]

　　

The Guardian -- 1/5

"None of which would matter if the resulting movie wasn't so joyless and tedious, a reboot quite without the first film's audacity and fun. The plot's potentially interesting dependence on the idea that there are aliens who are allies as well as enemies is lost in a tiresomely written muddle--an all-but-plotless melee of boring digital carnage. The first film was a creature of the pre-digital age when the spacecraft on screen were mostly physical models, but it can't be entirely the fault of our digital age that this film has no real sense of excitement and awe. It's a movie that is going through the intergalactic motions." -- Peter Bradshaw [Full review]

　　

The Hollywood Reporter

"In any case, few will come seeking a politically correct representation of a utopian future. The whole point of this franchise is watching a lot of alien butt get kicked, and their slimy scrawny tushes are well and truly whopped here in gloriously rendered, hyper-realistic detail. Emmerich and his visual effects teams pull out all the stops and there's a glorious abysmal beauty in never-ending shots of continent-wide spaceships landing and mayhem being wreaked. But for all that massy weightiness, it's to the film's credit that it always takes time to reassure us of the safety of a little dog." -- Leslie Felperin [Full review]

　　

Variety

"The work may be state-of-the-art, but there's something in its near-tangible surfaces--the mottled, blackened underbelly of the hovering alien craft, like a tar-varnished omelette, or the saliva-slick scales of the visitors' own skin--that seems reassuringly non-virtual, devised as easily in 1996 as in 2016. One could criticize Independence Day: Resurgence for being so of a piece with its predecessor, for following its template as efficiently and dutifully as it sets up a third instalment--one that will be far less long in the making. But whether or not you're invested in the film's nostalgia for itself, there's something comfortingly old-school about its excesses: It's the end of the world, still very much as we know it." -- Guy Lodge [Full review]