Screamers: The Hunting (2009)

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If Screamers: The Hunting had been made a little closer to the original film, it might have accepted to be the sequel Screamers seemed to promise back in '95. But 14 years later, instead of a proper escalation (and bringing the danger to Earth), it's back to Sirius 6B (this time played by Newfoundland) for more of the same, except with far more generic beasties and tech (not that those aren't kind of the same thing). Out with Peter Weller, of course, the eleventh hour grizzled veteran is here Lance Henrickson instead. Very much a by-the-numbers sci-fi monster movie with a reasonable ending but a lot of stupid character decisions and dialog along the way, even the effects make me think its makers wanted to be making a Resident Evil rather than a Screamers follow-up. Perhaps of interest to fans of the CW superhero shows, Stephen Amell is in this a year before he was cast in Arrow, and at times it sounds like it's his audition tape (though ironically, someone else is the archer... and also the only person who can make the claim to having a character to play, but spoiler, she doesn't make it). 4 years ago