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Name: The Arrival
Released: 1996-5-31
Cast: Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Crouse, Teri Polo, Ron Silver, Richard Schiff

The Arrival

PG-13
1h 55m
1996

65%

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Radio astronomer Zane Zaminsky (Charlie Sheen) believes he's picked up a cosmic noise that signals extraterrestrial intelligence. But after turning over the tape to his boss Phil Gordian (Ron Silver), Zane's fired, his girlfriend (Teri Polo) gets transferred and his partner is found dead from a supposed suicide. Zane's desperate search for answers leads him to Mexico and a mysterious power plant that is generating more than electricity and is run by people who are not what they appear to be. Arrested for the murder of a scientist (Lindsay Crouse) investigating an impending ecological disaster, Zane escapes custody carrying proof of a world-shattering alien invasion in this intense sci-fi thriller.

Director:

David Twohy

Producer:

Thomas G. Smith, James Steele

Writer:

David Twohy

Cast:

Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Crouse, Teri Polo, Ron Silver, Richard Schiff, Shane, Phyllis Applegate, Alan Coates, Leon Rippy, Buddy Joe Hooker, Javier Morga, Tony T Johnson, Catalina Botello, Georg Lillitsch, David Villalpando, María Luisa Coronel

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

65%

Critics Consensus: Stylish and inventive, The Arrival offers a surprisingly smart spin on the alien invasion genre.

Reviews

The Virginian-Pilot

Mal Vincent

E.T. would find it false propaganda, but for fans of the genre, it's standard sci-fi with all the needed ingredients.

The film starts to fall apart at the introduction of the aliens themselves, which suffer from dated special effects and an immediate aura of disbelief.

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Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Dennis Schwartz

The CGI alien special effects are only so-so, but the film is rich in ideas, well-executed and is pleasingly entertaining even if silly.

Less an alien invasion movie than a conspiracy film (it just hapens to turn out that the conspirators are aliens).

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