What is Independence Day: Resurgence's IQ Score?

Independence Day: Resurgence has an IQ Score of 70/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Passive tier. The score breaks down to 19/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 10/50 Educational Value, and 26/50 Craft & Quality.

Is Independence Day: Resurgence educational?

Independence Day: Resurgence is low on educational value, 10/50 on TVI's rubric. Watch for entertainment, not for learning.

How does TV Intelligentsia calculate IQ Score?

TV Intelligentsia's current published formula is round((Cognitive Stimulation × 0.4 + Educational Value × 0.35 + Craft & Quality × 0.25) × 4), scoring titles from 0 to 200 across five tiers. TVI publishes a three-dimension breakdown only when those values reproduce the displayed composite. The framework is published at tvintelligentsia.com/methodology/.

Independence Day: Resurgence IQ Score 70/200

Independence Day: Resurgence has an IQ Score of 70/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Passive tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-08-22·Methodology

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70/ 200

Passive

Light cognitive engagement, background-safe viewing

Score Breakdown

Legacy score. Published under our earlier workflow, before the current standard took effect in August 2026. A founder reviewed and approved it against our methodology, under a process that does not meet the standard we hold now. What this means →

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Cognitive Stimulation/50

Educational Value/50

Craft & Quality/50

IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4) · How we score →

What these dimensions mean

Cognitive Stimulation: observable narrative complexity, conceptual density, ambiguity, inference, and sustained intellectual demands in the work.
Educational Value: the density and integration of substantive academic, historical, scientific, cultural, ethical, or practical information in the work.
Craft & Quality: production excellence in service of the work, its direction, writing, performance, and aesthetic intent.

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Why you should trust this score

Scored under Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH

Physician and founding editor. Maintains the adult catalog against the published rubric and reviews the rubric application.

Methodology

Published rubric, v1.3.1

Formula

round((C × 0.40 + E × 0.35 + Q × 0.25) × 4)

Database scale

2,606 titles, version-controlled

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The TVI Take

Roland Emmerich's twenty-years-later sequel scales the original's spectacle up while hollowing out its craft. The alt-history Earth rebuilt on salvaged alien tech is a promising premise the script abandons for a bloated queen-mothership climax and interchangeable young leads with no Will Smith to anchor them.

Big, glossy, and inert, competent VFX carrying weak writing and flat direction.

People & Production Roland Emmerich · 20th Century Studios · United States 28 connections