The Arrival 1996

The greatest danger facing our world has been the planet's best kept secret... until now.

5.981 / 10   698 vote(s)
PG-13
Science Fiction Thriller

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.

Release Date 1996-05-31
Runtime 1h 55m
Directors Hiro Narita, David Twohy, René Villarreal, Isidore Mankofsky, Les Bernstien, Raman Hui, Richard Malzahn, Mark A. Shelton, Russell j Lyster, Claudia Becker
Producers Ted Field, Jim Steele, Thomas G. Smith, Robert W. Cort, Rodney Montague, Melissa Taylor, Charles L. Finance, Lorenzo O'Brien, David Tripet
Writer David Twohy

Charlie Sheen channels his inner Kevin Smith in this unique take on the genre. Sure it's a little X-Files-y, and a lot of the twists are either glaringly obvious or make zero sense, but by and large it's pretty original. The climate-change message does beat you over the head a little, but only gently, which I can handle. Obviously it didn't take anyway, considering we're here twenty years later and the problem's only gotten worse.

Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole.

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