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Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

*Spoiler/plot- Beyond the Time Barrier, 1960. An AirForce officer piloting a new hi-speed jet aircraft that travels into the edge of space creates a time barrier and land in the distant future. The occupants of the distance future are victims of the nuclear war and wish to live under ground to survive and flourish.*Special Stars- Robert Clarke, Darlene Tompkins, Vladimir Sokoloff.*Theme- American ingenuity will win and change a dire future history.*Trivia/location/goofs- B&W. Texas Fort Worth's Carswell Air Force Base. *Emotion- Wonderfully campy and exciting to watch this film. A nice slice of 50's technology and panic from the space race. The lead male actor was the producer of this and several other films of this type and era.*Based On- The Cold War invasion worries.

There's a lot to hate about this movie -- the cheap FX (e.g. the Flash Gordon models once the "X-80" reaches space); the scientific flaws; the inexplicable plot holes at some points...Also the futuristic sets seem to borrow heavily from preceding sci-fi hits -- "Forbidden Planet" especially, with all the triangular doors and passageways.Still, I like this movie because it touches on so many themes or tropes that still exist in most science fiction movies (and books too, for that matter). It mixes and matches some of the best ideas from the Twilight Zone series... in fact, it's like watching an extended episode of TZ!Examples of ideas:Destruction of atmosphere (ozone?) -- in this case by nuclear testsDiscovery of hyperluminal/"faster than light" technology, leading to:Colonization of Mars and Venus (briefly mentioned)Future history (after 1960) which includes Russian and German scientistsMutation from radiation (in this movie, cosmic rays)... leading to loss of hearing (the "deaf-mutes") and sterility... deformities are suggested but not seenSurveillance by a Supreme authority (cameras watching everything)Telepathy (apparently only the girl "Trirene" has it?)Time travel (obviously!) -- but no mention of the Grandfather Paradox if the protagonist goes backwards in time in order to change the futureUnderground "citadel" for protection from "cosmic plague" as well as from the:Zombie-like savage mutants on the surface, or kept below in a dungeonAnd probably many other concepts as well... many of these ideas are part of every modern Hollywood sci-fi movie.P.S. The scene where Trirene swims (naked?) in a pool is obviously borrowed from "Forbidden Planet"...

The legendary cult director Edgar G. Ulmer certainly had made better movies than this but that doesn't mean that this isn't fun to some degree. The main problem is that the (lack of a) budget shows: there's a lot more exposition here than action. But the actors are sincere, the visuals and atmosphere are decent, and there's a nifty twist ending that one might not see coming. The result is a minor but amusing effort that kills time easily enough.Robert Clarke (also the producer of the movie), who'd previously starred for Ulmer in "The Man from Planet X", plays William Allison, an Air Force pilot who goes on an experimental flight. Somehow, he breaks the time barrier and ends up 64 years in the future, where a plague has decimated most of mankind and where various people hole up in an underground building dubbed The Citadel. The plague has caused various stages of mutation in people; some folk have become deaf-mutes, such as Princess Trirene (Darlene Tompkins); others are more sickly. The people of this future don't trust Allison, which just makes things more difficult for him as he seeks to find out how to get back to his own time.The supporting cast consists of performers such as Vladimir Sokoloff, Boyd 'Red' Morgan, Stephen Bekassy, John Van Dreelen, and director Ulmers' pretty daughter Arianne in a major supporting role as the dubious Captain Markova. Co-star Tompkins is positively gorgeous and may serve as a distraction for any viewers who are otherwise bored with the movie. (One can't completely knock any movie where female outfits of the future include miniskirts.)This may be no classic of the genre but it does entertain, and only runs an hour and 15 minutes anyway.The makeup effects are by the great Jack Pierce.Six out of 10.

So many reviewers already took this film apart and I mostly agree with them. When I saw this film at Vienna's Filmmuseum (Austria), there was one scene I really could not trust my eyes. When this test pilot lands after breaking the time barrier and walks around in search of people he SUDDENLY sees this futuristic city! Well... that insert shot of a city is so completely out of sync with the scenes before and after that at first I thought he is looking at a poster, especially considering that it is so obviously painted like for a comic magazine and to top it all, you could even see the top of the paper it is painted on!!! I was simply shocked by such a poor quality. The guy who shot the insert seemed not to be able to fill the frame. One or two more inserts like this occur in this movie with the same effect. There is a lot of senseless running back and forth inside the city, maybe just to kill time, since the story is so thin. Ulmer proved that he could make good movies, but here he proved that he could make really bad movies as well!