Movie Review
The Arrival (1996)
Mixed Bag
Charlie Sheen is actually ok in this movie. Fun Aliens that look neat. Kinda like space grasshoppers.
The 90’s brought an invasion of alien films that were quite worthy of notice. “The Arrival” is one of them. Long before Charlie Sheen was “winning“, he was actually a good actor… if you needed someone to act like a paranoid douche. “The Arrival” centers around Zane Zaminsky an astronomer who discovers an alien signal. What is it with sci-fi and the nameZane? I’ve read a half a dozen sci-fi books in my life where the main character is named Zane. Is this some name of the future? I’m over 40 and still I don’t know one person actually named Zane. Where was I? Oh yeah, Charlie Sheen is a fucking lunatic who holds it together enough to make it to Mexico to investigate a radio station the signal seems to be communicating with. There he discovers the aliens’ true agenda.
“The Arrival” isn’t epic. It isn’t even in my top 10, but it’s a fun movie with really interesting looking aliens. Plus Ron Silver gets himself frozen and that is worth the time alone.
– RJB