Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Adrian M. Kleinbergen I can agree with the various shortcomings of this film although I loved it when I first saw it at a kid's matinée feature. The concept is so like a Bond movie I'm surprised it wasn't used for one. The scheming Chinese General could easily have been Dr. No. The special effects are nominal but serviceable and I'll offer the backhanded compliment that it could have been much worse if it had been an penny-pinching American production.Anyway, see it for yourself if you dare but it's light fluffy fun from the late 60's when it seemed the viewing public knew nothing of science and could ignore the glaring errors, both scientific and plot-oriented.Bonus! Ed Bishop of Gerry Anderson fame has a substantial role. Bonus again! The Chinese officers drive around in yellow German Kubelwagens.

bkoganbing In Battle Beneath The Earth the never ending Communist plot has decided on a new tactic to take over America. They're going to tunnel their way in from Asia. After that it's just planting nuclear bombs in strategic places, military bases, large cities and they blow up a couple and dictate surrender to the survivors. Neat ain't it.Interestingly enough at the time Battle Beneath The Earth came out it might have found a resonant audience because in the People's Republic Of China the Red Guard phenomenon was getting underway. Mao Tse-Tung turned on a whole lot of his comrades from the 1949 Revolution feeling that they had lost the zeal for change. The young people were those he placed his trust in and his guy for dealing with the old line Communists was a fellow named Lin Piao who met an untimely end a few years later after things really got out of hand.The Chinese general played by Martin Benson who is doing all this tunneling, a Communist mole in a literal sense of the word could have been based on Lin Piao. But sad to say this film plays like one of those old Fu Manchu stories and those in fact were coming back somewhat with Christopher Lee doing some of those new films as well around the same time as this came out.Peter Arne is the scientist who discovers the tunnels, something he wanted to work on for the west, but no one would let him. Kerwin Matthews handles the military end of stopping the Commies.If you're taste runs to Fu Manchu, I suggest you watch the real deal instead of this.

davidh-15 A classic. Utterly dismal. This film must have been made with the change left over from the first Blair Witch project. The rock wall tunnels practically wobble, truck headlights pretending to be rock boring lasers. Englishmen pretending to be Chinese with silly slant eyes - you know the style seen in every lame 60 or 70's movies - how hard is it to hire real Chinese as actors? If the effects stink they are fragrant compared to the plot. At one point to detect the Chinese tunnels the military orders the US to go silent for Gods sake; like it was a submarine on silent running! The whole things is so bad as to be camply hilarious.

Theo Robertson This a British film attempting to pretend to everyone and fooling no one that it`s a big budget Hollywood movie . It starts with a couple of Las Vegas cops with laughably bad American accents getting a report of a disturbance . Cut to some stock footage of Vegas with the cop car stopping beside a sidewalk that was obviously filmed inside a studio . Every expense has been spared with BATTLE BENEATH THE EARTH . Despite being set in the 1960s all the American troops have firearms and wear kit from the second world war while those nasty Chinese commies have death rays that are obviously flash lights , and in order to save on importing Chinese actors we have caucasians playing oriental villains . Why couldn`t they have employed Burt Kwouk ( Kato from THE PINK PANTHER movies ) I ask myself ? There is some enjoyment to be had from BATTLE BENEATH THE EARTH since it`s one of those " So bad it`s good " type films complete with absolutely ridiculous scenes that defy logic such as GIs` being able to defuse atomic bombs and people managing to outrun the blast from a nuclear explosion