For work on the second part of the adventures of aliens on our long-suffering planet was put the director, whose meager filmography clearly characterizes his creative talents. In fact, the same film came out, which became a vivid example of the basic laws of an unsuccessful sequel, when a new production on all fronts turns out to be much worse than its clever original.
Even purely plot development of affairs seems overly strained, invented without the idea just to give a motive for action. The insertion in the prologue of as many as fifteen (!) minutes, migrating from the ancestor, is surprisingly not too logical, in fact, which immediately breaks the narrative ends of former key characters, except for the grown-up daughter of a deceased police detective, now forced to save the world with a newly appeared “good” alien, like her brave father. Why the alien villain survived and because of what he proliferated - special scenario explanations will be superfluous, because everything is clear without words, reducing to the banal need to register a negative enemy by any means in a new tape.
Actually, such a tie-up with a claim to the mass nature of dangerous extraterrestrial monsters, instead of the last one unit, falsely tunes to the impressive development of the adventure aspect of a fantastic action movie, which, perhaps, was famous for the first issue of the dilogy. There the plot was simple, but delighted entertainment action. However, restraint of funds did not allow at least to approach this level, descending several steps down, when the bar with high-speed chases fell down to zero, and shootouts with fights are drowned in rare monotonous fights against the background of scant scenery of an abandoned forever dark factory. Disappeared and apt humor, often helping the action genre.
The change of the recognizable cast, once again turning out to be another stone in the garden of the ribbon, will additionally disappoint with a modified representation of opposing mysterious creatures. A new approach to the villain indulging in human bodies will reveal an overly talkative emotional subject, contrasting with a past sinister silencer whose diluted charisma is stung within a modest budget, no longer capable of dashing races around the city with the imposition of a barbaric chaos of explosions and murders. The only interesting concept is an introductory approach to the unspoken defenders of the human race, flirting a little on allusions with angels and demons represented in the face of fiction and other planets, because the aliens come from one kind: disembodied higher beings, full of benefactors, and their sworn enemies, who have comprehended the vices of evil, because of this have acquired a physical state with an ugly appearance. What is not Heaven and Hell with fallen angels, existing somewhere in the depths of space?
As a result, the viewer deals with an inexpensive faded futuristic action movie, whose title of the sequel additionally provides what is happening with losing nuances due to an unprofitable comparison with the original work. Thus, the picture is of interest exclusively semantic completion of the past story, to put an end to the tricks of a fugitive alien criminal and hunter for him.
3 out of 10