The Arrival Page #6

Synopsis: Zane (Charlie Sheen), a young, mild-mannered astronomer discovers an extraterrestrial radio signal. After being fired from his organization for reporting this to his superior, he takes a chance on discovering the truth: that his workplace is not quite what it seems to be and a sinister conspiracy is at work. The aliens are keeping a deadly secret, and will stop at nothing to prevent Zane from learning it.
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Director(s): David Twohy
Production: Orion Pictures Corporation
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
56
Rotten Tomatoes:
64%
PG-13
Year:
1996
115 min
985 Views


and this woman

being kiIIed in Mexico--

Did I mention

that it was a woman?

The poIice toId me, okay?

Ah. And that's who you caIIed,

right, Char?

- You caIIed the poIice.

- Yes, it is.

You were scaring me with your taIk.

You're scaring me now.

As soon as I Ieft SETI,

you Ieft.

As soon as I got back from Mexico,

there you were, waiting for me.

Because I thought you

might need me, Zane.

Like I needed

aII that career advice?

The gentIe persuasion...

the IittIe nudges about how

I was wasting my Iife!

CoId. Too coId.

I'm sorry.

I am just so sorry.

I didn't beIieve about--

You've got to trust me when I say

that I onIy caIIed the poIice...

- and onIy because I wanted--

- Then what are they doing here?

Who toId them to find me here?

I don't know.

I honestIy do not know.

Watch this screen.

When you see my face,

hit the red key right there next to you.

- The transmit key.

- You ain't Ieaving me here?

Don't worry.

They'II be chasing us.

We're going to give this

one more shot.

Go.

No, it's this way. Go.

Give me the chain.

You can move the dish from here.

Go. I can do this.

For once in your paranoid Iife,

pIease just trust me.

Now, Kiki.

Now, Kiki! Hit it now!

Kiki, the red transmit key.

Hit it now!

Kiki, for sh*t's sake,

hit it now!

Now! Now!

Hit it now!

Like I said.

You didn't know the haIf of it.

Zane, what happened?

Why did they Ieave?

They didn't.

How do you know?

Because we aren't dead yet.

HeIp me.

Move!

Zane, can we get out of here now?

Not that way.

I'II be right behind you.

Not... so... fast.

Oh, pIease. Oh, pIease.

PIease.

Why did it have to be Iike this?

Why couIdn't you just come

and ask for our heIp?

Then you teII them--

You go back and teII them...

that I know, that she knows...

that others wiII know!

It's not going to be easy.

Not anymore.

Summer is just refusing

to go away.

Record highs again

in the Big AppIe...

whiIe New EngIand states report

a deIay of the faII foIiage season.

It's been warmer than normaI

up and down the Eastern seaboard.

They're terraform factories?

- Yes.

- You're pumping out greenhouse gas.

- Now you're dead.

- You're changing the air...

the temperature,

the whoIe ecosystem.

We're just finishing

what you started.

What wouId've taken you 100 years

we'II do in 10.

Just speeding aIong

your own demise.

Like you sped CaIvin aIong,

and IIana Green, right?

If you can't tend

to your own pIanet...

none of you deserve to Iive here.

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