Movie: The Arrival (1996)

• Director: David Twohy
• Release Date: 1 January 1997 (Hong Kong)
• Run Time: 115 min
• Country: USA , Mexico
• Genre: Sci-Fi , Thriller , Mystery , Action  
• MPAA: Rated PG-13 for some sci-fi violence and terror, and for brief language.

Tagline: The greatest danger facing our world has been the planet's best kept secret…until now.  

Goofs: Continuity: Close to the end of the movie when Charlie Sheen wants to transmit the video from the control room, the power fails. He looks outside and sees an electricity cable has been cut. He then decides to go to the dish itself. Later on, the electricity in the control room works just fine.
 

“Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a Hitchcockian labyrinth of paranoia and intrigue. Written by Greg Dean Schmitz <schmitz@gnatnet.net>”