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The Arrival

The Arrival (1996)

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

Radar 41Stable signalGB:121h 55mScience Fiction · Thriller · Mystery

The Radar read

A quieter title still finding its audience, though the rating rests on a thin sample, so treat it as provisional.

Synopsis

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.

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✗ Not for kidsBest for teens and up · GB 12

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Radar score41/100
Quality signal63/100
Audience rating6.0
Votes counted858
Trust signalStable signal

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