How long should a tri solar eclipse last, anyway?

Rating: 7/10 (20 February 2000)

Apparently, longer than it takes to finish a movie. This movie tries hard to rise above the cookie cutter alien clone genre of sci-fi films, and to a certain degree it succeeds. It does succeed thanks to its beautiful artistic vision and artistic direction. But, its artistic merits rest atop a script that relies too much on some very traditional and tiresome sci-fi plots.
The acting, especially the transported criminal played by Van Diesel (who has a great voice for the part) is above average. The special effects have some novel and quite interesting approaches to portraying an alien world with three suns. Artistic direction gets very high marks, several scenes seemed to be almost framed and contain a certain attention to detail that is rare today. The aliens themselves are also very interesting, if a bit derivative from Aliens. Although, we never do get a real clear look at them, but this ends up working well since it lets the imagination of the viewer fill in the details.
Overall, a very good attempt a making a worthy derivation of the classic aliens genre.