FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

mark.waltz There's uranium in the Mexican hinterlands, bringing down a plane and ironically where passenger Gloria Talbott's missing boyfriend happens to be hiding among the gigantic creatures grown to huge proportions to their regular size. Desert lizards become dinosaur sized, a giant hawk devours a huge dog-sized rat, and the one-eyed title character seeks to find out his past through grunts and groans. So what do the other three passengers on the plane decide to do? Destroy him to put him out of his misery. It's all pretty dumb, with the creature looking like he's got a piece of lettuce over his eye with plastic costume shop teeth in his mouth to give the illusion of deformity due to radio active contact. Lon Chaney Jr. delivers a weak performance as the oldest member of the quartet with seemingly nefarious plans that have no real impact on the plot. James Craig us dull as the pilot, seemingly in love with Talbott and must break the shocking news of who the Cyclops is. Ultimately amateurish and not even funny in a silly way, this ranks as a boring stinker that seems hastily rushed out of the B studio assembly line and would be considered a stinker a decade before it came out.

lemon_magic I had a chance to see "The Cyclops" as part of a retro double feature a few weeks back, and it's a classic indication of the perversity of human nature that the annoyance value of this movie kept me thinking about it long after I stopped pondering classics such as "Bride of Frankenstein".This movie has a fine cast, but they appear to be mostly going through the motions on this one, probably because the lapses in logic and plot holes in the screenplay make it impossible for most people to take it seriously. Lon Chaney has a particularly ridiculous character to play, and while I am a fan of this great actor, I almost cheered when his character bought it. The special effects are, well, about what you'd expect from Bert I. Gordon. I've never seen a person apparently so obsessed with traveling mattes and gigantism; if he'd done it better, it would be inspiring. As it is, his technical limitations make for really contrived and unconvincing scene layouts. Not bad enough to be funny, not good enough to be involving, but I kept watching in case something interesting or magical happened before the end. It didn't.By no means the worst movie in the Bert I Gordon canon that I've seen..."Village Of the Giants" was much worse in spots. (But it also some cheerfully goofy dance scenes,. bawdy teen freakouts, and some hot babes to enjoy.) I felt especially bad for Talbott and Chaney.

Robert J. Maxwell Barely watchable. Maybe it helps if you're stoned to the point at which everything seems absurd, and you can appreciate the absurdity.Gloria Talbot's husband crashed in the Latin American jungle a long time ago and she hires a small plane with three guys -- James Craig (a kind of scientist), Tom Drake (the pilot), and Lon Chaney, Jr., a greedy slob who is quickly disposed of by the eponymous monster.The plane lands in a vast and veritable plano filled with uranium or some radioactive substance. The substance irradiates the living things in this wasteland and causes them to grow to enormous size. If they're already grown when they first encounter the radiation -- as Talbot's husband was -- well, too bad for them.This story has nothing to do with the Odyssey. The 50-foot-tall Cyclops is the remains of Talbot's unfortunate husband. He has a normal body but half is face is covered by an ugly prosthesis that shows his bare teeth. And he simply can't shut up. He's always going AGGHHH! or UNNHH! and sometimes his terminal contours indicate some sort of inquiry, as in AGGHHH? The male actors are schlubs, except for Lon Chaney, Jr., the booze-wrecked remnants of an actor who was once able to clear that bar. The poor guy sweats, trembles, and shouts -- more pitiful in his own way than the disfigured Cyclops.I've always liked Gloria Talbot, though she was more of a presence than an actress, with her sharply defined, pretty features. She had a sassy figure too, as revealed in a photo in the Navy Times, which I used to read when I still had a reason to. But she can do nothing to save this cheesy piece of trash.

forrestanfo This is a GREAT movie for you Bronson Caves fans. It is also a GREAT Monster Movie. Well worth seeing. The Cyclops, is the same as "The Colassal Beast" and "War of the Colassal Beast. Really scary monster! There are plenty of other good monsters also. Lon Chaney does an excellent job as always. Plenty of Griffith Park woods scenes for the Griffith park fan also. I highly suggest this movie for fans of classic Black and White Monster movies. The kind we waited until late Friday or Saturday night to watch. It is amazing how scary this film is when you were in your before, or early teen years. PLEASE take the time to watch this movie! You will be glad you did. It is also well worth owning. I gave it a TEN!