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After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This unwanted film is a sequel to THE ARRIVAL, a neat little science fiction thriller about an alien conspiracy starring Charlie Sheen. While slightly lacking in the special effects department, the film had many good ideas, such as aliens using global warming as a way to take over the earth. That film went straight to video. However, the sequel goes even lower, and has actually gone straight to cable. And if that wasn't enough, THE SECOND ARRIVAL turns out to be one of the worst, lamest films I've ever seen. Talk about the law of diminishing returns, that rule is put into overdrive in this film. The only good aspects are mere rehashes of scenes in the original thriller, and the rest of the film is full of such mind-numbing banality that you'll wake up sweating in the night, after having nightmares about being made to watch this torture endlessly.Forget the plot - it's non-existent. After a few brief set-up moments, the film consists of the 'heroic' pair basically running around, driving, getting attacked in some way by the aliens, thinking up a new plan, getting stopped in their tracks, thinking up a new plan, and then it all unravels and the director has no idea how to finish it, so he just has a big implosion at the end for special effects sake. However, even if the plot was stupendous, it would still be a chore to watch the painfully bad acting of Patrick Muldoon as he labours his way through each scene, staring blank-faced at the camera and making tired jokes which nobody thinks are funny. This guy must have been living on a different planet at the time of filming, he's obviously not inhabiting his own body, as he's stiffer than a plank coated in concrete. Mind you, Jane Sibbett isn't much help either, coming across as a sub-rate Scully, her acting skills consisting of shouting and tossing her hair. The only guy of note is Michael Sarrazin, the single 'name' actor in the entire film, and he gets murdered near the beginning as well.So what is there to watch for? The special effects? They're mostly bad, but bad in a look-at-the-bad-special-effect kind of way. The spinning alien globe is done to death, too, and to add insult to injury, there's only one alien in the entire film! (unless we include some CGI shots lasting for less than a second). The film reaches new lows when it introduces a virtual reality landscape, looking like a late '80s computer program. No, an early '80s computer program. It's that awful. The one good scene in the entire film occurs in the cold storage room, but it lasts quarter of an hour at most and it just goes downhill from there. Added to the blend is a totally gratuitous nude scene with an actress who really shouldn't be appearing naked. If you want backwards-legged aliens then watch the first film, nothing is done here that wasn't done there. In fact, forget that this film exists, because it adds nothing to the mythology apart from some nifty alien devices, and it's an embarrassment all round. Avoid!

I love the first movie. When I was younger, I couldn't wait to this one. I used to love this when I was younger. I used to love anything that was put on in front of me. I didn't see this for a long time. I recently re watched and I have changed my opinion.The story is OK but there was a lot of things that went way over the top. The acting was pretty pore, especially Patrick Maldoon, who cannot act to save his life. Jane Sibbet was OK, Im used to see her in Friends. The villains were evil but in a laughable way, they just happened to be there when the main characters are running away.The special weren't that good, you can easily tell it's CGI. The direction and filming was good by Kevin S Tenny. The main climax was bad and laughable, thats when the bad acting came in at it's worst.The good thing is the alien designs kept it's originality but the CGI was bad for it.Overall, its average but rubbish at the same time. Please see it by all means but I would rather stick to the first movie.

If I was the Director I would have claimed Alan Smithee status. Patrick Muldoon was a huge disappointment. The writing sucked. I'm also sure they put in a lot of time in the editing room. I was really shocked when I finally saw the CG. That must be were they spent all the cash. And those handy dandy cabs that just happened to be there at just the right time. Zane: "We gotta get out of here. How did you get here?" Bridget:"I took a cab." Zane: "Me too!" Stellar writing there. Oscar material all the way. I'd say if you want to have your own MST3K night at your house, this is THE movie. Too bad Charlie Sheen couldn't have just done it:(

led to believe by the other comments here. OK, it was low-budget and the final sequence could have been extended and it is unclear why the imploder's lights are the opposite of those in the first film, but it does work as a sequel, picking up where the first movie ended and building to a resolution.If you get the DVD with both movies on it, give this one a watch and see for yourself.