A radio astronomer receives an outer space signal that leads him on an adventure of intrigue and paranoia.
PLOT:
Zane Ziminski (CHARLIE SHEEN) is a radio astronomer who's been searching for signs of life in outer space. When he finally gets a distinct signal, he turns over the tape to his boss, Gordian (RON SILVER) who promptly destroys it. Suddenly his job has been eliminated and his girlfriend, Char (TERI POLE) wants nothing to do with him. Feeling paranoia overcome him, he begins investigating and finds more and more cover ups occurring. On his way, he meets up with Illana Greene (LINDSAY CROUSE), an environmentalist who has been investigating strange and rapid global warming. What they find out is that aliens are planning on melting the polar ice caps and then inhabiting the flooded Earth. Zane, Greene and Char, who returns to help Zane, must contend with government bad guys who want to keep this under wraps, and the aliens, both of which want to stop Zane.
WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT?
You bet. A sci-fi story about aliens will have them coming in droves.
WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: PG-13
For some sci-fi violence and terror, and for brief language.
CAST AS ROLE MODELS:
CHARLIE SHEEN plays a man who's determined to expose the cover up that may answer questions about alien life. He's a marginally good role model.
RON SILVER plays the lowlife government boss who's covering up the real story. He's a bad role model.
LINDSAY CROUSE plays the environmentalist who's bent on figuring out what's really going on. She's a good role model.
There is a bathtub scene where Zane is in one, and the one on the floor above him is preparing to fall through the floor. There are many prolonged dripping scenes before the tub crashes through Zane's ceiling and he barely gets out in time to miss being hit by it.
Zane then chases a man he believes is responsible for the bathtub mishap.
Some bad guys place scorpions in Greene's room and there is a prolonged sequence where she comes ever so close to contact with them, and then walks away into another room, where once again, they're very close. She eventually gets into bed with several of them.
The strange looking aliens may be frightening to some kids.
Zane's trip through the alien labyrinth is a bit tense.
A bad guy drops through the ceiling and attacks Zane with a sickle.
Zane tries to retrieve a tape from Gordian's jacket as a weird alien device begins sucking up everything in the room.
Zane and his girlfriend stand nude on a balcony, but due to the way the scene's shot, nothing is seen.
Zane hops out of the way just as a bathtub crashes down on his and he's nude, as is the shrieking woman on the floor below him. But again, nothing is seen.
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