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Sick Product of a Sick System

Sadly Over-hyped

Must See Movie...

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

After 38 years, you might think that everything will ring false in the depiction of an ET encounter. But actually, the film stands very well together. I was expecting a campy ET suit with an obvious human shape not too well hidden - but instead, there is a logical explanation why the ET looks almost human (spoilers...). This is one of these old movies where there was a scenario and special effects were just a support of the scenario. I also like how they portray the investigators... and how the actors portray their reactions in very realistic ways. Worth watching!

Everything from the incredibly lame writing, to the abysmal acting and everything in between, this movie made "Lost in Space" look like a serious space drama with unquestionable accuracies and award winning attributes for writing, special effects, plot creation, and documentary worthy research. I can enjoy the campiness of the 1950's type of B movie sci-fi and television shows like "Lost in Space" for what they are and am a great fan of truly well written, researched and acted sci-fi thrillers with intriguing plots, creative story lines and well developed characters but this movie is not one of those movies. It is a failed attempt which took itself seriously and seriously failed to deliver. This movie is so bad I couldn't wait for it to end. It is an epic failure from opening to the closing credits. I'd rather experience a mouth full of root canals rather than be forced to watch this again.

Low-grade, but slightly riveting slow-going conspiracy-laced government cover-up thriller that sees an UFO colliding with an American satellite being launched in space and then crash-landing in the Arizona desert. To hide the truth because of an election campaign, the astronauts are blamed for the incident which saw one of their colleagues killed. So the two men go about trying to find out the truth which the government officials would do anything to keep it a secret, while studying what they have just found.The clunky story goes about three separate parts; that of the astronauts trying to clear their names (this is when the action kicks into gear --- "Come on we got to get that rock."), the political big-heads villainously scheming (doing things behind closed doors) and then you got the NASA scientists trying to learn from their alien discovery. While ambitious in context, it just seems too simple and cautious in its presentation (a telemovie of the week feel) but it does stick to its strengths. The whole novelty of the discovery of the flying saucer and its occupants is interesting (theories are chucked around), if at times a little disappointing. A good cast is assembled. Gary Collins and James Hampton are sturdy as the two astronauts. Darrin McGavin chips in with a bright performance as the NASA official in charge of the project in investigating their new spacecraft toy and Robert Vaughn in a weasel performance heads the dirty tactics.

I saw this movie when it premiered on my 9th birthday in 1980. Boy did this movie unnerve me and my uncle who brought me to see it! He worked for Raytheon at the time, patriot missile system if I recall. He told me back then that this country was well enough armed at that time to protect itself from something like this happening. I am not trying to stir the pot, but, you draw your own conclusions. Up until he passed away he worked for the navy department and he lived in Las Vegas. Flew a lot. Like I said draw your own conclusions from this movie and what I said. I already have and I don't have tinfoil hats nor do I want or need one. thank you.