Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Hitchcoc This is a nice example of the fifties monster movie. Like "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" and "The Giant Behemoth," we have a lizard like thing that hatches and launches and attack on Rome. William Hopper (Hedda's boy and Perry Mason's investigator) is the central figure here. While the plot is pedestrian, Ray Harreyhausen's monster is a sight to behold. With stop action animation, it squirms and writhes as it tries to dominate its new habitat. You have to feel sorry for these guys. They are merely acting like wild animals (although the propensity for knocking down buildings seems to be a problem). Anyway, as the creature gets bigger and bigger, we watch it to its climax atop the Rome Coliseum.

Wizard-8 "20 Million Miles to Earth" is generally an enjoyable example of the giant monster craze that came out of the 1950s. If you are looking for giant monster thrills, the movie does deliver, giving the audience its first glimpse of the creature early on and subsequently making it reappear on a regular basis. While some of the special effects are (perhaps inevitably) dated, if you view the movie in a 1950s perspective, they are acceptable. (Actually, there are a few excellent special effect sequences that had me wondering how they did them!) The pacing is very good, with only a few (momentarily) slow spots, and the running time is not too long (less than ninety minutes.)Are there any significant flaws with this movie? Well, I did have a couple of minor quibbles. The portrayal of the Italians in the movie is pretty stereotypical and embarrassing by today's standards. Also, the movie seems surprisingly reluctant to go into depth about the space mission that brought back the monster, which leads to a number of unanswered questions. But if you accept the movie as a product of its time and are in a forgiving mood, most likely you'll be able to overlook those flaws and enjoy your viewing experience.

JCS TX Some movies stand the test of time, this one does not. I'm not sure it ever did.The monster was good as far as 50s FX go. Yea Ray. But the opening spacecraft crash - really? So cliché as it floats nose down (I suppose that's where the heavy engines are?) way too high in the water, and then sinks like a rock once the rescuers disembark. It never gets better. The portrayal of the Italians as basically stupid is insulting. Air Force Colonel Robert Calder's (William Hopper) initial interactions with Marisa Leonardo (Joan Taylor) were probably intended to make him look like a forceful military man. Instead he comes off as an arrogant bully. The alien is treated completely without compassion. Grim.Spoiler alert! Bob and Marisa's relationship eventually warms. The "monster" dies. Who would have suspected?Here's the way any outline of this flick should actually read: American astronauts return to Earth with a kidnapped alien from Venus. The alien, struggling to understand its situation and gain its freedom, is brutalized and then killed while the Earthers lament their bad luck at having suffered any losses.

traitorjoe666 Don't get me wrong, it's an enjoyable flick, but it typecasts humans *perfectly*, for the asshats they usually are.This is the King Kong epic, only with a reptilian "ape" kidnapped from Venus, not some obscure tropical isle. And of course, "humanity" wins by murdering the creature when it proves to be inconvenient.I'm hoping the purpose of the flick was to be a sort of expose', rather than rooting for the "good guys" to kill the "bad" creature, and if so, this hits the mark dead-on.The unfortunate creature, Ymir, is taken from his native Venus as an egg, where he later hatches into a cute little lizard-critter. But of course, the "scientists" react by grabbing, capturing, and caging the little critter, to be experimented on, without even wondering what it needs as far as food, water, etc. And the nerve to call it "so ugly"... like it'd think the pink squishy things imprisoning it were paragons of beauty?? Okay, Joan Taylor is seriously hot, but still...So, when Ymir can *finally* escape, all he does is grunt at his captors and wanders off, never so much as touches them. Only when provoked does he react in anger; they even *say so*! He wants to eat, gets attacked by a dog, and only then gives the dog a beat-down. He gets repeatedly attacked, and only when pitchforked in the back does he attack his attacker. He's electrocuted and recaptured, experimented on some more, and only through human incompetence is able to escape again. But from there, he's met with guns, flamethrowers(!), tanks, all sorts of weaponry. Finally, in his last-ditch effort to escape by just blindly climbing to nowhere in particular, he's howitzered and finally murdered. Yes, murdered.Yay, "humanity".So then, finally, can the gorgeous almost-doctor and square-jawed military-dood go have a nice quiet meal in a dark cafe. Gives ya the warm-fuzzies just allllll over.Again, I'm really hoping that was the intent of the movie, to show humans in the light they've earned throughout history. Maybe it'd be a wake-up call to some. We can only hope.