Invaderbank
The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
Lachlan Coulson
This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.
Richie-67-485852
The strength of this movie lies with the story. In the world of story-telling, I give this a ten easily. It fully captures the imagination of the viewer and has some really good points to explore and contemplate on. Space is always an interesting subject and if you add time-travel to it anything goes thus this movie. Who doesn't wonder about what things would be like hundreds of years from now? It is impossible to nail this premise down so we rely on any scenario to get us started. This story does that. These men manage to make it to Mars, map it and start back for home. From there, they encounter the unknown and because they survived it we have a story to be told. Another good thing about this movie is the ending which is left open for the viewer to imagine that anything is possible and it leaves you on that note. This movie also draws on the famous and most necessary theme of a "second chance" something every human being must have and craves. Hindsight sets this up nicely as we all discover what does not work and then we immediately want another opportunity to explore again. This is also known as "another bite of the apple" in our vernacular. Without that opportunity to begin again, our ending is guaranteed. The bible refers to it as "insight" and correctly states without it we will perish. Great movie to eat with while watching with a tasty drink and a snack to follow. If this movie was to be brought current and redone it would be on par with Star Trek or Star Wars as we start to explore the planet Earth all-over again especially after its near demise. Include the mutations of all life, survivor lessons and success stories too. The premise remains open-ended which gives it legs. Enjoy
SnoopyStyle
In 1957, four astronauts are returning to Earth from mankind's first mission to Mars. They are hit by some cosmic event and land on a strange planet. They are attacked by giant spiders and mutant humanoids. They find a human grave with an end date of 2068. They surmise that they have traveled through time to an Earth of the future. They stumble upon an underground civilization.This is standard 50s sci-fi borrowing from Verne and Wells. The look and the premise are undeniable B-movie sci-fi. It would be nice to have some cool twist but that's not to be. It's all rather old fashion.
wijnandbodrij
This must be the dumbest 1950's sci-fi movie ever.It starts of fine, (like an early version of Planet of the Apes)only instead of apes we get a race of "mutates" on the surface of the earth and a small group of "regular humans" who have built a society underground(A lot of similarities with the Timemachine).Our 4 heroes end up in a cave and are taken in by the regular humans,finding out that after a big nuclear war the surface dwellers were mutated into hideous,violent,Cycloptic Neanderthal-like "mutates" due to radiation,and a group of humans went underground.These underground dwellers degenerated into spineless peace loving hippie treehuggers with no stomach for violence whatsoever (which seems logical considering the earth was decimated by nuclear war) Our 4 heroes however disagree with this peaceful society and take it upon themselves to lead the treehuggers back to the surface where humans belong,and propose to create weapons to take the surface back,because the underground society will go extinct due to the oh so obvious inbreeding.Now i am not sure about the morale of this tale but i'm sure American 2nd amendment lovers should adopt this movie.
rrcharpe
It is not surprising to see how much mankind's (and woman-kind's) knowledge has advanced over the last 60 years but when you watch this movie you will be struck by the blunders that the writers of this mediocre sci-fi movie made. Several examples include things that were known at the time by almost anyone who had taken a high school biology course: These include spiders on the earth of the future who were the size of dogs, which is impossible given the oxygen rate in the atmosphere and the level of planetary gravity on earth which limits the size of spiders all over the world. Another thing is when the space travelers encounter a spider they worry about it "stinging" them when in fact spiders only bite and none have stings. It is like this throughout the movie which makes you wonder who the technical advisers were and what they were smoking. StocktonRob
