The Arrival (1996)
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 32
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 12
Stylish and inventive, The Arrival offers a surprisingly smart spin on the alien invasion genre.
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 2
Stylish and inventive, The Arrival offers a surprisingly smart spin on the alien invasion genre.
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A shy radio telescope operator named Zane Ziminski (Charlie Sheen) picks up a series of regular signals coming from space -- and deliberately pointed toward Earth. Convinced that he has discovered alien transmissions, Ziminski is first chastised and then fired by his boss (Ron Silver). Obsessed, he builds a makeshift radio telescope in his house to find out where the signals were sent. Convinced that they're intended for aliens already hidden on Earth, he tracks them to a bleak, isolated Mexican
May 31, 1996 Wide
Jul 25, 2000
Orion Pictures Corporation
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Cast
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Charlie Sheen
Zane Ziminski -
Ron Silver
Phil Gordian -
Lindsay Crouse
Ilana Green -
Teri Polo
Char -
Richard Schiff
Calvin -
Tony T. Johnson
Kiki -
Phyllis Applegate
Mrs. Roosevelt -
Roger Cudney
JPL Official -
Leon Rippy
1st Department of Defen... -
David Villalpando
cabbie -
Jacqueline Voltaire
reporter -
Jorge Zepeda
detective -
Buddy Joe Hooker
2nd Department of Defen... -
Maria Luisa Coronel
maid -
Luisa Huertas
security woman -
José Garcia
planecorp guard -
Jorge Becerril
plancecorp guard -
Reed Johnson
maintenance man -
Mónica Dionne
reporter -
Ellen Bradley
screaming woman -
Alan Coates
Terraformer -
Javier Morga
co-worker -
Catalina Botello
N. C. A. R. Woman -
Georg Lillitsch
George Computer Technic... -
Angel De La Pena
Skeleton Man -
Alejandro Usigli
reporter -
Dave Galasso
2nd Jpl Guard -
Andrea Sisniega
weather woman -
Shane
1st JPL guard
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All Critics (37) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (20) | Rotten (12) | DVD (7)
What it lacks in sophistication (everything), it partly makes up for in sheer gall.
Top CriticIt's a strong, lean piece of writing that moves quickly. Nothing is wasted, and nothing happens the way you'd expect.
A movie that shoehorns a blunt warning into its silly but entertaining story of a young radio astronomer's one-man battle against sinister extraterrestrials.
The movie is as smart as ``Mission: Impossible'' is dumb.
This is not a dumb movie; in fact, with its heavy reliance upon real science, it's startlingly credible.
[Sheen] spends most of the movie in a kind of sweaty apoplexy that makes one worry for his health.
Less an alien invasion movie than a conspiracy film (it just hapens to turn out that the conspirators are aliens).
You know a movie's in trouble when it's called The Arrival and nothing arrives -- the film's aliens are already here.
The aliens-among-us plot gets a very entertaining and inventive update.
A good premise, hampered by a weak ending.
...The Arrival is a stylish and fast-paced thriller.
Sheen is working outside of his element, but the energy he puts into his multidimensional character helps keep the story moving.
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