Review of Arrival II

In Montreal, the unruly computer expert Jack Addison (Patrick Muldoon) receives an envelope with the information that his stepbrother Zane Ziminski had died of a heart attack in Alaska. Jack goes to bar after-hours where he meets Sandra Wolf (Catherine Blythe) and they have one night stand. When he opens the envelope, he finds photos and information about an alien invasion and a letter scheduling an encounter at a refrigerating chamber in an isolated place. Jack believes Zack is delusional but he goes to the spot where he meets the investigative reporter Bridget Riordan (Jane Sibbett) and the scientists Prof. Nelson Zarcoff (Michael Sarrazin), Trevor Aguilar (Emidio Michetti) and Tom Billings (Stéphane Blanchette). Jack finds an alien device in a hidden bag and Trevor feels the cold and reveals as an alien. He activates a sphere that sucks everything around and Tom and he are sucked by the artifact. However Jack and Bridget escape together and Zarcoff also succeeds to escape, but is killed in his hotel room by an alien weapon. Meanwhile Jack goes home to see Sandra and finds that his apartment was also sucked. Further Sandra is an alien and together with her partner Wotan (Mike Scherer), they hunt Jack and Bridget down. Will they succeed to warn the earthlings and stop the alien invasion?

"The Second Arrival", a.k.a. "Arrival II", is a lame sequel of "The Arrival". The characters are not well developed and the skill of Jack Addison to interact and program the alien computer so fast is weird. The DVD does not have subtitles and is difficult to understand the voice of Jane Sibbett, at least for foreigners. In the end, "The Second Arrival" is a forgettable sci-fi. My vote is four.

Title (Brazil): "A Invasão 2" ("The Invasion 2")