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on July 3, 2015
I am a big fan of old sci-fi movies. Many of them are so bad that they are good. This movie is neither good nor bad enough to be good. The plot is slow and uninteresting. As others have observed, and yet praised the film, very little happens in this flick of any interest. It's just boring.
on January 25, 2015
This was a purchase for my husband who has since passed. I don't care for SciFi
on May 18, 2015
Good old fashion movie, grandsons had a good laugh
on July 13, 2015
The laser beam was up today.modern .war weapons
on January 26, 2016
I like Sci-Fi and I like old movies. But this movie was lacking in both entertainment and plot.
SPOILERS****************
So I get that this is supposed to mirror the issue with the cold war. But this movie could be summed up with an alien saying "If you're violent, we'll obliterate you." Which really isn't a good analogy since these aliens are much more powerful, apparently there to teach earth a lesson, while the cold war was about two sets of people with their fingers on a trigger. A better analogy would be if the aliens were the last of their civilization looking to settle on earth, while the earth and the aliens both had bombs pointed at each other, from fear of not being able to trust the other.
The rest of the movie is spent with this single alien being dumb, gallavanting about earth in a boring manner without any precautions. And the police / army forces being dumb, repeatedly trying to kill this alien without any thought of repercussions and secondly, having terrible security (think of the few guards around the space ship and how the alien's body was so easily retrieved, without anyone knowing about it).
Now this alien knew that earth was violent and he might be killed.
Why did he venture out with no protective gear? They obviously were pretty advanced with their practically indestructible robot, so why could he not have better armor?
And why did he not have a more sophisticated way to contact his ship? He seriously had to get close enough to shine little lights on the ship? I mean they knew about radio waves back then- they could at least have had him use radio waves with some remote transmitter or something. Or what makes even more sense: Have the robot follow him and protect his fragile comically human body.
And he knew that if he died, he would have no way to tell his robot to revive him. Apparently his only plan was to get some human to speak the magic words to his robot. Now how likely is it that he could both find someone to do this, have them remember the words, and also have this random human be able to get close enough to the ship to do it? Oh right, their security around the ship sucked.
Secondly, what was his mission, really? In the end he says:
"Your choice is simple.
Join us and live in peace,
or pursue your present course
and face obliteration.
We shall be waiting
for your answer."
Okay, so right before this quote, he explains how it is robots like the one he brought which keep them in line. Basically if anyone acts in aggression in his culture, the robots wipe them from existence or something really bad. Earth has none of these robots. So how can he expect the earth to change their ways if his own culture can't even behave without nanny destroyo bots?
And what does he mean by "Join us and live in peace?" What does he mean by "Join us?" Is he asking for the earth to agree to allow their robots to come down and occupy earth? Or is he just asking them to not inflict violence upon each other? Or is he asking for them to come fly away with him? It is not clear and it is a bit confusing with how immediately he leaves on his ship. He doesn't even wait to hear an answer. Not to mention, he speaks in English the whole time around these people from different countries.
If he's talking about the atomic bomb, there is no way the bomb could reach their planet. Is he really so concerned about humans destroying each other? Does he really think that threatening to wipe the earth out "if we wipe each other out" makes a lot of sense?
I'm really not sure why this movie got such high reviews.
SPOILERS****************
So I get that this is supposed to mirror the issue with the cold war. But this movie could be summed up with an alien saying "If you're violent, we'll obliterate you." Which really isn't a good analogy since these aliens are much more powerful, apparently there to teach earth a lesson, while the cold war was about two sets of people with their fingers on a trigger. A better analogy would be if the aliens were the last of their civilization looking to settle on earth, while the earth and the aliens both had bombs pointed at each other, from fear of not being able to trust the other.
The rest of the movie is spent with this single alien being dumb, gallavanting about earth in a boring manner without any precautions. And the police / army forces being dumb, repeatedly trying to kill this alien without any thought of repercussions and secondly, having terrible security (think of the few guards around the space ship and how the alien's body was so easily retrieved, without anyone knowing about it).
Now this alien knew that earth was violent and he might be killed.
Why did he venture out with no protective gear? They obviously were pretty advanced with their practically indestructible robot, so why could he not have better armor?
And why did he not have a more sophisticated way to contact his ship? He seriously had to get close enough to shine little lights on the ship? I mean they knew about radio waves back then- they could at least have had him use radio waves with some remote transmitter or something. Or what makes even more sense: Have the robot follow him and protect his fragile comically human body.
And he knew that if he died, he would have no way to tell his robot to revive him. Apparently his only plan was to get some human to speak the magic words to his robot. Now how likely is it that he could both find someone to do this, have them remember the words, and also have this random human be able to get close enough to the ship to do it? Oh right, their security around the ship sucked.
Secondly, what was his mission, really? In the end he says:
"Your choice is simple.
Join us and live in peace,
or pursue your present course
and face obliteration.
We shall be waiting
for your answer."
Okay, so right before this quote, he explains how it is robots like the one he brought which keep them in line. Basically if anyone acts in aggression in his culture, the robots wipe them from existence or something really bad. Earth has none of these robots. So how can he expect the earth to change their ways if his own culture can't even behave without nanny destroyo bots?
And what does he mean by "Join us and live in peace?" What does he mean by "Join us?" Is he asking for the earth to agree to allow their robots to come down and occupy earth? Or is he just asking them to not inflict violence upon each other? Or is he asking for them to come fly away with him? It is not clear and it is a bit confusing with how immediately he leaves on his ship. He doesn't even wait to hear an answer. Not to mention, he speaks in English the whole time around these people from different countries.
If he's talking about the atomic bomb, there is no way the bomb could reach their planet. Is he really so concerned about humans destroying each other? Does he really think that threatening to wipe the earth out "if we wipe each other out" makes a lot of sense?
I'm really not sure why this movie got such high reviews.
