diff --git a/src/aac_metrics/download.py b/src/aac_metrics/download.py
index 829a155..713e187 100644
--- a/src/aac_metrics/download.py
+++ b/src/aac_metrics/download.py
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@
 
 
 def download_metrics(
+    *,
     cache_path: Union[str, Path, None] = None,
     tmp_path: Union[str, Path, None] = None,
     clean_archives: bool = True,
@@ -87,6 +88,7 @@ def download_metrics(
     spice: bool = True,
     fense: bool = True,
     bert_score: bool = True,
+    force: bool = False,
     verbose: int = 0,
 ) -> None:
     """Download the code needed for SPICE, METEOR, PTB Tokenizer and FENSE.
@@ -99,6 +101,9 @@ def download_metrics(
     :param spice: If True, downloads the SPICE code in cache directory. defaults to True.
     :param fense: If True, downloads the FENSE models. defaults to True.
     :param bert_score: If True, downloads the BERTScore model. defaults to True.
+    :param force: If True, force to download files and extract archives again even if they are already present on disk.
+        Works only for PTBTokenizer, METEOR and SPICE files.
+        defaults to False.
     :param verbose: The verbose level. defaults to 0.
     """
     if verbose >= 1:
@@ -116,19 +121,36 @@ def download_metrics(
         pylog.debug(f"  Temp directory: {tmp_path}")
 
     if ptb_tokenizer:
-        _download_ptb_tokenizer(cache_path, verbose)
+        _download_ptb_tokenizer(
+            cache_path,
+            force=force,
+            verbose=verbose,
+        )
 
     if meteor:
-        _download_meteor(cache_path, verbose)
+        _download_meteor(
+            cache_path,
+            force=force,
+            verbose=verbose,
+        )
 
     if spice:
-        _download_spice(cache_path, clean_archives, verbose)
+        _download_spice(
+            cache_path,
+            clean_archives=clean_archives,
+            force=force,
+            verbose=verbose,
+        )
 
     if fense:
-        _download_fense(verbose)
+        _download_fense(
+            verbose=verbose,
+        )
 
     if bert_score:
-        _download_bert_score(verbose)
+        _download_bert_score(
+            verbose=verbose,
+        )
 
     if verbose >= 1:
         pylog.info("aac-metrics download finished.")
@@ -136,6 +158,8 @@ def download_metrics(
 
 def _download_ptb_tokenizer(
     cache_path: str,
+    *,
+    force: bool = False,
     verbose: int = 0,
 ) -> None:
     # Download JAR file for tokenization
@@ -150,19 +174,22 @@ def _download_ptb_tokenizer(
     fname = info["fname"]
     fpath = osp.join(stanford_nlp_dpath, fname)
 
-    if not osp.isfile(fpath):
-        if verbose >= 1:
-            pylog.info(
-                f"Downloading JAR source for '{name}' in directory {stanford_nlp_dpath}."
-            )
-        download_url_to_file(url, fpath, progress=verbose >= 1)
-    else:
+    if not force and osp.isfile(fpath):
         if verbose >= 1:
             pylog.info(f"Stanford model file '{name}' is already downloaded.")
+        return None
+
+    if verbose >= 1:
+        pylog.info(
+            f"Downloading JAR source for '{name}' in directory {stanford_nlp_dpath}."
+        )
+    download_url_to_file(url, fpath, progress=verbose >= 1)
 
 
 def _download_meteor(
     cache_path: str,
+    *,
+    force: bool = False,
     verbose: int = 0,
 ) -> None:
     # Download JAR files for METEOR metric
@@ -178,7 +205,7 @@ def _download_meteor(
         subdir = osp.dirname(fname)
         fpath = osp.join(meteor_dpath, fname)
 
-        if osp.isfile(fpath):
+        if not force and osp.isfile(fpath):
             if verbose >= 1:
                 pylog.info(f"Meteor file '{name}' is already downloaded.")
             continue
@@ -197,7 +224,9 @@ def _download_meteor(
 
 def _download_spice(
     cache_path: str,
+    *,
     clean_archives: bool = True,
+    force: bool = False,
     verbose: int = 0,
 ) -> None:
     """Download SPICE java code.
@@ -229,8 +258,9 @@ def _download_spice(
     └── spice-1.0.jar
     """
     try:
-        check_spice_install(cache_path)
-        return None
+        if not force:
+            check_spice_install(cache_path)
+            return None
     except (FileNotFoundError, NotADirectoryError, PermissionError):
         pass
 
@@ -247,7 +277,7 @@ def _download_spice(
         fname = DATA_URLS[name]["fname"]
         fpath = osp.join(spice_cache_dpath, fname)
 
-        if osp.isfile(fpath):
+        if not force and osp.isfile(fpath):
             if verbose >= 1:
                 pylog.info(f"File '{fpath}' is already downloaded for SPICE.")
         else:
@@ -312,6 +342,7 @@ def _download_spice(
 
 
 def _download_fense(
+    *,
     verbose: int = 0,
 ) -> None:
     # Download models files for FENSE metric
@@ -321,6 +352,7 @@ def _download_fense(
 
 
 def _download_bert_score(
+    *,
     verbose: int = 0,
 ) -> None:
     # Download models files for BERTScore metric
@@ -376,6 +408,12 @@ def _get_main_download_args() -> Namespace:
         default=True,
         help="Download FENSE models.",
     )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--force",
+        type=_str_to_bool,
+        default=False,
+        help="Force to download files and extract archives again.",
+    )
     parser.add_argument("--verbose", type=int, default=1, help="Verbose level.")
 
     args = parser.parse_args()
@@ -394,6 +432,7 @@ def _main_download() -> None:
         meteor=args.meteor,
         spice=args.spice,
         fense=args.fense,
+        force=args.force,
         verbose=args.verbose,
     )
 
diff --git a/src/aac_metrics/functional/spice.py b/src/aac_metrics/functional/spice.py
index 539d5d0..5e1c083 100644
--- a/src/aac_metrics/functional/spice.py
+++ b/src/aac_metrics/functional/spice.py
@@ -273,6 +273,7 @@ def check_spice_install(cache_path: str) -> None:
     for fname in expected_jar_in_lib:
         if fname not in names:
             files_not_found.append(fname)
+
     if len(files_not_found) > 0:
         raise FileNotFoundError(
             f"Missing {len(files_not_found)} files in SPICE lib directory. (missing {', '.join(files_not_found)})"