The Arrival

This aliens vs. earth film succeeded because it added humor to the suspense story and Charlie Sheen did a great job adding to that with an expression-filled face that made he and this film fun to watch. Story-wise, most of it... Read more at imdb.com

When the astronomer Zane Ziminski (Charlie Sheen) receives signal from a distant star, he reports and gives all the evidences to his chief, Phil Gordian (Ron Silver), and is immediately fired. Zane becomes obsessed to locate the signals again and finds... Read more at imdb.com

What makes The Arrival so good is that it's paranoia could be real. Where as scientists tell us that global warming is the result of smokestacks and deforestization and factories, this film has other ideas. And the ones that are in... Read more at imdb.com

Expecting cookie-cutter mediocrity, I was really pleasantly surprised. The cons of this film are the common pitfalls in every low-budget sci-fi, not to mention the haggard-loner-versus-the-shadowy-big-conspiracy genre. The plot turns and dialog are mostly predictable, and the composition is sloppy at... Read more at imdb.com

I was a little bit late getting to the theater to see The Arrival as I recall. The movie was slated to start ten minutes past the hour and I didn't get to the theater until five after. Then I had... Read more at imdb.com

I give this a 6 not for the acting or anything, but for the single idea that aliens are already here, doing "their thing", using bureaucracy and human compliance to authority as weapons against humanity. This could have been a good... Read more at imdb.com

The Arrival falls on the list as one of those films that would have and should have been a lot better than what they turned out to be. In the end, this film tries a lot, but it falls flat on its face. The ending was somehow disappointing ... Full Review

She's a good role model. He's a marginally good role model. MUSIC (SCARY/TENSE) Several of the scenes (including the bathtub and scorpion sequences) are accompanied by moderately tense music. He's a bad role model. ... Full Review

The movie is as smart as ``Mission The Arrival'' fulfills one of the classic functions of sciencefiction, which is to take a current trend and extend it to a possible (andpreferably alarming) future. ... Full Review

The Arrival,'' a deeply creepy science fiction thriller that opens today, signals a change. The Arrival'' has intelligence and mood, and this time of year you have to take that where you find it. ... Full Review

Anyone who might enjoy "The Arrival Let it be said that Sheen, always at best an emphatic actor, seems cartoonish here. David Twohy has written and directed a hokey summer entertainment that is full of big machinery, satellite dishes du jour ... Full Review

THE ARRIVAL: Thriller.Starring Charlie Sheen and Ron Silver.Directed by David Twohy.(PG-13.110 minutes.) ``The Arrival,'' a deeply creepy science fiction thriller out on video this week, features aliens who may be smarter than we are, but are... ... Full Article