The Arrival (1996)
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.
- David Twohy
- Dea Cantu
- René Villarreal
- Dee Whitehurst
- David Twohy
Rating: 6/10 by 726 users
Alternative Title:
Shockwave - US
Primer contacto - MX
L'Arrivée - FR
สงครามแอบยึดโลก - TH
Die Ankunft - DE
Country:
Mexico
United States of America
Language:
English
Français
Runtime: 01 hour 55 minutes
Budget: $25,000,000
Revenue: $14,063,331
Plot Keyword: greenhouse effect, global warming, extraterrestrial, astronomer, conspiracy, scientist, alien invasion, foot chase, desert, climatologist, observatory, alien language, golf club, volkswagen beetle, liquid nitrogen, screwdriver, cosmic zoom, radio telescope, satellite dish
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._
