The Arrival

USA 1997 - Sci-Fi/Thriller — 115 min — Directed by David Twohy
Cast: Charlie Sheen, Ron Silver, Teri Polo, Lindsay Crouse, Richard Schiff

Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a Hitchcockian labyrinth of paranoia and intrigue.

Been a couple years since I saw this one last, and it still holds up. Never seen the sequel, for obvious reasons, and never will. While it’s not the greatest story ever told, it’s still effective, especially for sci-fi geeks like me. I remembered essentially everything, which is very rare for me, almost unheard of. I also thought the end-fight was much longer, but I was probably mixing it up with another movie - now that’s not rare! The story is not cheesy at all, and doesn’t go for lame in-jokes, or supposedly witty one-liners and such nonsense. Though not much in the way of action, it’s still allright.

My Rating: 7 / 10