Quartile rating: 5/10 · 1 rating
Having just returned from a mission to Mars, Commander Ross isn't exactly himself. He's slowly becoming a terrifying alien entity with one goal -- to procreate with human women! When countless women suffer gruesome deaths after bearing half-alien offspring, scientist Laura Baker and hired assassin Press Lennox use Eve, a more tempered alien clone, to find Ross and his brood. Before long Eve escapes to mate with Ross.
Species II is a formulaic and largely uninspired sequel that recycles the original's core premise — alien-human hybrid on a mating rampage — without meaningful innovation. The plot is mechanical and predictable, hitting the same beats as its predecessor but with less tension or coherence. Acting is serviceable at best, with little memorable character work. Cinematography is generic late-90s genre filmmaking with no distinctive visual style. Novelty is very low as it is essentially a derivative retread of Species with amplified gore but no new ideas or distinctive voice. The ending resolves things perfunctorily without impact or surprise.