I learned in 5th grade English that I can't write a paragraph all I do is what they call run on sentences... with that in mind someone should have told the writer(s) of this hunk of $h!t they couldn't write a movie!!! Much of the story felt like a jigsaw puzzle without all the pieces it was like they had a good concept from the first but they didn't fully understand what they had it made me wonder if they took time to look at the original script or even watch the first movie there was a few remarks made to the first but they didn't answer any questions that were raised from the first movie.If I could have truly graded this it would have gotten either no stars of 1/2 A star just for the fact that they somehow got Lance Henriksen to be in this movie and 1/2 star for a credit like this "The characters, screamers and events depicted in this motion picture are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons or screamers, living or dead is purely coincidental and not intended. No screamers were harmed in the making of this motion picture" that's the only way it gets a 1 star rating.

This movie is a great rehash of the original. The original Screamers was a low budget movie that had a cult following that had special effect in the vein of Robocop (i.e. Stop motion and bad sets). The actors were all unknown and the plot was horror/action, but just new and interesting enough to gain a cult following.Fast forward 15 years. This sequel is when a crew receives a distress call from the original mine and they come back. The new movie uses digital cameras, making the quality look better, but also provides an artificial feel to the movie since the "grit" is gone. The special effects and acting hold true to the original. The actors are all unknowns and perform to the quality of any SyFy original movie. The special effects are about what you'd expect from a straight to DVD movie.Overall, I enjoyed watching the movie. This was in part due to the fact that it forced me to reminisce over the original, but it also provided enough action and horror to stand on its own two feet.

OMG what an awful movie. The story is moronic, the acting is laughable and the casting is pathetic (except for Lance Henricksen, who rocks, as usual).When I saw that the writing credit went to one of the producers, I should have known that the main objective of that production was to rip-off the Canadian tax payers and the viewers of their hard-earned dollars. It confirms my opinion that English Canadian cinema is mostly a bargain basement version of Hollywood, that only survives on subsidies and because Canadian pay-TV channels have to invest in local production.The story is a festival of clichés, any idiot could guess the finale 30 minutes before the movie ended. We even get a sex scene but the producers must have cut the unavoidable t&a images so they could get a PG rating. It's an horrible movie, really... The only reason people watch it is because the title has some notoriety (and i must say I hated the first one).Physical effects are well done, though.

Sequel to the cult favorite, Screamers, follows a space crew from Earth ordered to answer a distress signal regarding human survivors on the mining planet of Sirius 6B. Robot creatures, which move underground, nicknamed "screamers"(..because they make a loud screeching sound before contact with victims), are actively evolving, now capable of fusing mechanically with human body parts, which makes them an even greater threat. Also on it's way is a meteor storm which will destroy Sirius 6B and so the crew must avoid the perilous danger from the screamers, find any survivors and escape within a 6 day window. Making matters worse is when a screamer drains the fuel cells of the crew's ship, forcing them to find a source of power elsewhere. Finding a small group of miners still alive, the crew hopes that they can lead them to the fuel cells needed to get off the planet before it is destroyed by the meteor shower. As long as the screamers are active, this will not be easy.Lance Henriksen shows up about an hour in as Orsow, a scientist who understands the screamers because he actually was the one who designed them. Plenty of bloody gore as the screamers tear apart victims, both as little bug-like robots and in half-human, half-robot hybrid form. A mix of computer graphics and practical effects, not too bad, I've seen much worse. Plenty of exciting action set pieces, but nothing that extraordinary or earth-shattering. You can see that the budget is a bit less than the first, understandably so considering this sequel comes 14 years after the original. Sorely lacking a Peter Weller to buoy the cast, Greg Bryk is more accustomed to portraying villains, and is pretty much a major reason the crew faces such difficulties, setting off the army of screamers after turning one on to collect logarithms which would provide his superiors with advanced technology for purposes of war..he portrays Commander Andy Sexton, the leader of the crew. Gina Holden, as Lt. Victoria Bronte, portrays Joe Hendricksson's(Weller)daughter, getting involved with a mysterious miner. The remaining cast, either portraying members of Sexton's crew or those miners found still alive, become casualties along the way. Important scenes, explaining the evolution of the screamers, include the crew's finding a factory containing an assembly line of screamers reaching for miles, and what appear to be tortured humans imprisoned behind an electromagnetic field(..released by the crew who think the miners are mere savages keeping them for a food supply). There's a twist I think many viewers will see coming a mile away, but the ending is shocking enough. The running threat of the robots(..or their technology)reaching Earth is always present.