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By Alex P (1,080) on 26 Jan 2006

Actually seen this twice, it's usually on about 3am, I'm guessing that's why i'm the only reviewer. Pretty good tho…

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By Steve U (49) on 29 Jun 2005

A pretty cool sci-fi flick…

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By James H (4,675) on 02 May 2005

INTRIGUING SCI-FI THRILLER, SOMETIMES A LITTLE SLOW PACED, BUT OVERALL IT IS ENGROSSING. CHARLIE SHEEN DOES A FINE JOB…

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By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Capital Times (Madison, WI) (875) on 28 Oct 2004

The aliens-among-us plot gets a very entertaining and inventive update…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 19 Oct 2004

While this particular film doesn't boast any radical or surprising ideas, it combines numerous familiar plot elements into a suspenseful, entertaining…

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By Jay Carr (837) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 15 Aug 2004

The Arrival looks and feels awfully small and cheap. In that way, the movie does feel like those science-fiction classics of the ’50s…

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By Steve Persall (1,105) for Tampa Bay Times (1,287) on 07 Aug 2003

The Arrival, like so many science-fiction films, begins as a promisingly eerie mixture of pseudo-scientific exposition and chilly paranoia…

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By Dwayne E. Leslie (20) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 04 Jun 2002

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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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 16 May 2000

It's a strong, lean piece of writing that moves quickly. Nothing is wasted, and nothing happens the way you'd expect…

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By Barbara Shulgasser (553) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 30 Mar 2000

A hokey summer entertainment that is full of big machinery, satellite dishes du jour, long embarrassing close-ups and gaps in logic through…

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By Chris Hicks (618) for Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (1) on 01 Jan 2000

No logic, little character development and a thin story that is supposed to be compensated for by startling effects…

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By David N. Butterworth (570) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 01 Jan 2000

It's like Stakeout with a glossier Sheen…

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By Marc Savlov (2,019) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 24 Sep 1997

Goofy summer fun that makes Earth vs. the Flying Saucers look like Citizen Kane…

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By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 30 May 1996

[Sheen] spends most of the movie in a kind of sweaty apoplexy that makes one worry for his health…

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