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")

The original starring Charlie Sheen was very good. THE SECOND ARRIVAL is not so good. Science fiction is someone's dreams and fantasies...if some chance of believability exist the better. This sequel seems to have nothing but some carried over special effects from the original amped a bit. Don't even look for any logic. After Zane Ziminski is found dead of a heart attack in Alaska, his step brother Jack(Patrick Muldoon), a computer expert and pretty sharp hacker, receives an envelope from his brother with details of an alien invasion. Five other people received the same info and plan to join and do something about it. The earth is on target of dying due to an accelerated global warning. By this time how many aliens have already set up business in disguise? Others in the cast: Jane Sibbett, Michael Sarrazin, Catherine Blythe and Michael Scherer.

The Second Arrival was a decent movie. I have not yet seen the original movie so I have no basis for comparison. I also saw it on television and it seems they cut out the nudity scene or else I was too distracted making dinner. It was worth the two hours it took to watch, but I would never buy it. The characters are believable enough and the movie did keep me on my toes. The whole plot is a very trite, Invasion of the Body Snatchers type thing, but on the whole it was okay. The alien script looked WAY too much like Klingon and gave The Second Arrival a rather Star Trekkish feel which was completely unnecessary. Yes, they are aliens. No, not all alien script looks like Klingon. I don't recommend it unless it is on television.

Since I loved the original (The Arrival) so much, any sequel was going to be hard-pressed to beat it. But I certainly thought this one would be better than what I saw. The Second Arrival merely rides on the coattails of the original and adds little, if any, to the story. The budget for this film is quite evident, as they even steal special effects from the original and use it as their own. Perhaps they were just trying to get viewers to identify this movie with the first, but the attempt is lame. For quite some time I thought it starred Rob Lowe in the lead, but it's actually Patrick Muldoon. I'd swear those two are twins.This movie picks up with Zane Zaminsky's death from a "supposed" heart attack. With the event of his death, envelopes are mailed to several of Zane's close colleagues and contacts with information on how earth is occupied by an alien presence. This informed few try to discover more about the aliens while also trying to survive. 3/10