Species II (1998)
Having just returned from a mission to Mars, Commander Ross isn't exactly himself. He's slowly becoming a terrifying alien entity with one goal -- to procreate with human women! When countless women suffer gruesome deaths after bearing half-alien offspring, scientist Laura Baker and hired assassin Press Lennox use Eve, a more tempered alien clone, to find Ross and his brood. Before long Eve escapes to mate with Ross.
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It is a performances centric movie
This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.
It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.
Spoiler Alert!!! This film is almost as good as the original with a similar plot where an alien like creature suddenly appears and starts mating in order to reproduce. Here though it's a male alien like creature so he doesn't have a problem going around having sex with any girl he sees. Another good thing about this film is that it brought back Michael and Marge to help keep the feeling of originality! And I'm so happy Forest Whitaker wasn't in this he is one of the most useless characters in cinema history. Seriously I wanted him to die from the very beginning because he is such a waste of a character. The only thing I didn't like about this film is the missing performance of Ben Kingsley where he acted like a jerk. Here though I don't remember there being any jerk in charge of the project which is kind of disappointing because I wanted to see a jerk in charge like the original. Other than that I must say this movie lives up to the original and is just as interesting I give it a 6.5 out of 10.
Species 2 (1998): Dir: Peter Medak / Cast: Natasha Henstridge, Michael Madsen, Marg Helgenberger, James Cromwell, Mykelti Williamson: Stupid sequel to a stupid film. Premise regards a mission to mars in which the Senator's son is inflicted with an alien virus. At one point he is witnessed blowing his head off with a shotgun only to reform it. He leaves a trail of bloody pregnancies everywhere he goes. Natasha Henstridge returns as a recreated alien only this time she's with us. It all winds down to a battle between two creatures that is in itself impressive, but we have to endure a lot of crap to get there. Well directed by Peter Medak with fine production. Henstridge handles the action well but this time she is basically switching sides and changing her name. Michael Madsen and Marg Helgenberger reprise their roles but they are virtually flat. James Cromwell is wasted as the Senator. It is sad to see him go from Babe and L.A. Confidential to this. The same can also be said of Mykelti Williamson after playing shrimp loving Bubba in Forrest Gump. Unnecessary sequel that does nothing more than attempt to repeat the success of the original as well as present gooey special effects. The first film was little more than the umpteenth ripoff of Alien so do not expect a genius plot from this garbage. If you thought the first one was bad then be forewarned of this. Score: 2 / 10
God-awful sequel is so bad it makes the original classy and inspired by comparison. Sequel has astronauts being infected on Mars by the same alien DNA that caused all the trouble the first time, and when they return home, go on a murderous reproductive spree to take over the Earth. Again, this has some returning cast members, all of whom deserve better than this excessively violent, sleazy, foul-mouthed and feeble-minded film.Hard to believe this farrago was directed by Peter Medak, who made the exceptionally fine ghost story "The Changeling"(1980) None of that class, intelligence and subtlety is on display here. At one point, a character screams "This isn't the (censored) "The X-Files"! No kidding, though guest star Peter Boyle did appear in one of that series' best episodes, so would know better than anybody else the gulf of quality between them!
After returning from a mission to Mars, a team of experts' tracks down the infected astronaut carrying a parasitic alien before he can meet up and mate with a similar human/alien hybrid.A very rewarding sequel to a fine original, this one turned out to be very enjoyable. By adapting a more straight-up storyline instead of dealing with all the science and facts, there's considerably more action in this one in terms of splattered victims which seems to be the main focus of the first half. With an increase of splatter, there's some great kills and creature make-up used during those scenes, and the tentacled beings covered in slime generate a lot of fun, especially bursting forth from people's stomachs or chasing around the ground which are good times. Several other scenes with the alien children shooting their cocoons together and the effects work there allows even more goopy, gory fun in conjunction with a continuation of fun kills, miraculous healing abilities from both creatures and copious nudity. There are some flaws here, though, namely the decision to allow the captured male into the quarantined zone with the girl when there's plenty of knowledge to indicate his goal is to mate with her, as well as the film's rather tacky CGI during the finale when the practical effects were working so well. It loses some steam in the middle where they keep coming up short in the quest to stop him rampaging and raping woman as they're always on the other end of it, but otherwise there's still a lot to like here.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Nudity, several Sex Scenes and attempted rapes