Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

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.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

O2D What would you expect from a movie that features Cliff Clavin?Not much, right?Well not much would be a huge improvement over what it actually is.There isn't a single thing in this movie that makes sense.It starts with two guys throwing a baseball(like girls) over a scientist who has a bunch of glass beakers sitting next to him and of course they end up breaking some of them.Why did they have to play ball there?Why did the scientist have glass beakers when he had no intention of ever mixing or even using chemicals?So anyway, the one guy has invented a diving bell that doesn't have a bottom and magically, it never fills with water.They get lowered down on a rope and find a large gold statue.They somehow manage to get it into the bottom of the diving bell and tie an extremely long rope around it and somehow the other end of the rope is tied to the ship above.Even though there was clearly no rope in the bell when they left.When it gets to the ship the captain immediately tells one of the scientists that his men may try a mutiny and then they immediately do just that.Weak.The crew cuts the rope to the bell and attack the others.Then a giant octopus attacks and drags them all hundreds of feet under water and they all live.Then he goes back for the bell.Once in Atlantis it just gets worse.They say they were brought there for taking the statue but later we find that Atlantis just needed to replace dead slaves.Did I mention Atlantis has guards that wear helmets that cover their face and the humans have no problem punching them and knocking them out?They get locked in a cell and it looks like they are doomed.Then two extremely slow moving monsters attack and they are content to just eat the one Atlantean slave who has a speaking part and then smash into the main characters cell, freeing them but not hurting them.Weak.Then they find a sewer grate with all the bars broken for easy access.Because in a world run by tyrants, who would notice that?The other end of the sewer(where all the non-slaves live) is just covered by some hanging beads?WTF?So they get back to the diving bell and drive it to the surface.If the bell was self-propelled why did it have to be lowered on a rope?Why was it inoperable after the rope was cut?Why did they even get out of it if it was still working?The octopus comes back and smashes their ship so they get in a row boat with no oars and the octopus just leaves them alone.Then it's implied that they all live.Somehow making it hundreds of miles with no radio or oars or food.This movie should never be seen by anyone.

Leofwine_draca This kind of cheesy adventure yarn was a staple of my youth - and every time I see one of these films, it brings a tide of nostalgia pouring through me. WARLORDS OF ATLANTIS is a film which just wouldn't stand up to a modern audience's viewing - it's not politically correct, the acting is poor, and the special effects not particularly effective. But to a child, the film becomes a wonderful story of monsters, aliens, and plenty of protracted fight scenes. The film starts off well with an excellently animated octopus attacking a boat and dragging the survivors to a new world. This octopus attack is really quite splendid, okay so it's not original but the model effects really do look good. After there things can only go downhill, but there are still plenty of laughs and fun to be had as our heroes enter a weird society of primitive gill-men and alien rulers.The chief nasty bloke in this case is Michael Gothard, a man who lent his unique persona to such schlock as SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN and the respectable JACK THE RIPPER before committing suicide in the early '90s. He always reminded me of a British Klaus Kinski. Gothard is at his sneering best here as the evil alien commander, although sadly he is given far too little screen time and not much to do apart from stand around and bark orders. Opposing him as the face of good is a solid Doug McClure, whose shirt gets torn off yet again and who pushes his way through the film with his own brand of wooden acting. He might have his critics (and many of them), but for me, McClure will always be a hero. Much like modern action stars, he's a man who never gets injured, who always wins out in the end. and who gets to fight loads of baddies and monsters single-handedly.Which brings me on to the monsters, which look a lot like dinosaurs. Sadly these are of the back-projected variety (the cost of the octopus must have eaten the budget), and even if they look quite nice, the projection does look awful, much like in AT THE EARTH'S CORE. You can almost smell the rubber on some of these monsters. The film reaches new depths with an attack of flying fish (a truly unbelievable scene), but I quite liked a toothy snake thing which came out of a swamp to grab somebody's leg. If your idea of fun is a cheesy and amusing film, then this one is for you. Packed with effects and action scenes which seem to go on forever, any child would love it. I would rate it as better than AT THE EARTH'S CORE, but not quite as good as that all-time favourite, THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT.

Joe Smith ~There's barely spoilers present but I checked the box nonetheless. NO actual major plotpoints are revealed only plotdevices~Ancient alien Nazis from Atlantis fight dinosaurs/turtles. For this end they abduct humans and mutate them. Really do I need to say more?It's not a good movie but it takes risks and is different in a way I have come to appreciate in an age of pre-digested Hollywood blockbuster movies that all follow the same receipt, contain the same ingredients and are clearly made for the wide public.This movie is none of those things. For that reason alone you might want to give it a go. Special plus sides might be the acting of the space Nazis which are true coldblooded evil bastards without acting like comicbook supervillains.

alsation72 Let me get this straight ... a group of Atlantean Elites control the Earth from an underwater kingdom and have powers we cannot possibly fathom, yet to repel giant man-eating beasts that threaten their very civilization the best they can do is throw rocks at them from above? The Atlantean Ruling class keep their civilization going by abducting human sailors passing through the Bermuda Triangle. This was enjoyable enough as a simple adventure story but you definitely have to turn your brain off at the door.Actually the animatronics are impeccable, I was left believing these creatures were real ... NOT. The puppetry is laughable for the late seventies, its good for a laugh.