Alien man mates with woman before turning into big scary alien creature. SPECIES II has a threadbare plot about aliens which has been recycled so many times that it's merely a continuation of the first film, offering up nothing new in the way of surprise or intrigue. Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 4 / 10 A film just as disappointing as the originalĪ tired, by-the-numbers sequel to a film which wasn't good enough to deserve a sequel in the first place. I voted 8/5/6/7 for the 4 parts of the series. The sequel was definitely not as intelligent as the original and tries to hide the lack of ideas with gallons of blood. Madsen just needs to run around armed and look cool - he understandably gives a lackluster performance. We get a lot of cliché characters, from the corrupt senator to the uncompromising general, and the survivors of part one are treated carelessly by the screenplay: Helgenberger lends a willing hand to cruel experiments, Natasha Henstridge returns as the alien's latest clone, but during the whole first hour of the movie, she has nothing to do except sit around in a glass cage. Since there was a bit of gore and sex in the first movie, there is a lot more gore and sex in the second one, as if that could improve the quality in any way. Although we were told in the original movie, the alien DNA came from light years away, it is now found on Mars (just around the corner in astronomical terms), and astronauts take it home to Earth. The cliffhanger from the end of part one (a rat with alien DNA might spread it like a disease) was completely ignored though. Of course, killing the alien was no reason to stop the producers from making a sequel.

Reviewed by unbrokenmetal 5 / 10 A sequel that lacks new ideas

Species full movie 1998