Matcollis
This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.
Burkettonhe
This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.
Roy Hart
If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.
Keeley Coleman
The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
adhdad
I thought it did pretty well for the time period. I know that this would have been a drive-in movie night when it came out for our family. Both parents were SF fans.I enjoyed the juxtaposition of the citadel and wooded area. I knew then that this would be a campy ride back to the early 60's.Fun parts - Triangle doorways and walls, too short elevator doors, cut scenes from a different movie, violins, good stunt work, and a surprisingly interesting ending.Good 1960 tropes but pretty accurate scientific details except the time travel part.I'll put this on the list for our family movie marathon.I can't imagine that I've given a spoiler alert with this review but just checking the box anyway. These tropes were in almost every SciFi movie in the 50's and 60's.
unbrokenmetal
I didn't expect much, but it's actually pretty good. 'Beyond the Time Barrier' tells us about a test pilot in 1960 who takes a rocket plane into space for a short flight - but when he returns to the airbase, it's deserted. A futuristic city is nearby, and he finds he is in the year 2024. He learns about the people of the future, what problems they have, and what caused the destruction of the old world as he knew it. He would like to return to his own time and prevent the catastrophe, but this is a difficult task...It's a movie made in 1960 and looks like it with dated design and effects. The story has a few weak points, especially time travel with a plane, simply flying a bit faster, is unconvincing. But there are a couple of good ideas (e.g. predicting the damage to the ozone layer instead of the usual nuclear war topic) and it's well directed, without any tedious or silly scenes to stretch the running time. Good sci-fi entertainment for its age.
oscar-35
*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.
slabihoud
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!