The players hardly fail the material, but the Jim Thomas-John Thomas screenplay defeats all concerned.

At first, the film seems no more than an old-fashioned monster-movie... However, there is a more disturbing sub-text, reminiscent of the cinematic aliens born of the Red scare of the Fifties, but rendered here more self-consciously for the Nineties.

The film rarely strays from its violent catharses.

Glove's heroics are a plus, to be sure, in a film overflowing with violence. Problem is, the suspense that help make the original a winner is missing.