This came out at the exact same time as Independence Day, but I think this is the better movie.
Hotting up events are happening over the planet, and at the same time Zane hears a signal from a far away star. And then tracks it to an earth event in Mexico. Heading down there, he bumps into Ilana, who is casually killed off. He also finds aliens under the earth, and manages to run away. In the big climatic end scene, will they use a radio dish??
Charlie Sheen is Zane, a paranoid scientist who sweats a lot. Lindsay Crouse is Ilana, a weather scientist that unfortunately gets into zoology. Ron Silver is the creepy guys. And Leon Rippy plays one of the best evil bad guy minions seen on the screen.
This isn't the only movie where aliens help speed up global warning, but it is a great one that doesn't bother getting a big action star. Ilana gets killed off halfway through the movie, and Zane's big thing is being able to push buttons.
There is a neat effect of the rotating globe that looked a lot better in the 90s, but the alien design is kept simple and the big thing is backwards folding knees. Suddenly seeing a character bend their knees the other way is a great moment of "wah".
(There was also a sequel, but we don't need to talk about that.)
So that's was some of the 90s movies I remember. What else is there?
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