You get sinking feelings during the first few minutes, an entire fifteen of which are a reprise of scenes from the first film. Thereafter, The Hidden II becomes merely a big bug hunt with numerous scenes of alien parasites jumping out at people a la a whole host of tawdry Alien (1979) copies, something that The Hidden rose considerably above being. The second half is only a tired reprise of the first film. There’s nothing in these scenes that approximates any of the original’s style and wit, instead it the film has another alien moving between human bodies liking rock music and fast cars because that’s the way the first film had it. The scenes where this version tends to work are the scenes of Rafael Sbarge’s good alien trying to understand human ways and his romance with Kate Hodge. The scenes are cliched and banally played, but Sbarge and Hodge are well paired and make a nice couple, giving the film its few moments of sincerity.