Target Earth
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Movie Reviews of Target Earth
Movie Review: OK 50'S SCI-FI RELIC...
Summary: 4 Stars
VCI did a good job restoring this vintage sci-fi invasion tale. After a failed suicide attempt, Nora King (Kathleen Crowley) wakes up to find the city deserted except for a body or two with horrified expressions on their faces. She encounters Richard Denning and they try to figure out what happened (he had been mugged unconcious) while they "slept". They meet a colorful couple drinking it up who survived also and the four band together. An invasion of robots from Venus have attacked the Earth and everyone has evacuated. (Well, actually it's only one robot clanking around but this IS a low-budget quickie). They end up in a hotel, contend with a gangster and fight the robot. Not everyone survives, but there's a rescue by the armed forces who have discovered how to demobilize the robots. With high-frequency sound! Engagingly goofy, loopy sci-fi that's competently acted but very low-budget. The robot is so cheesy looking I expected pieces of him to fall off any moment. But that was part of the fun. If this is your cup of tea, enjoy---!Movie Review: Better Than Expected
Summary: 4 Stars
This film is well acted and directed. The only weak spot would be the robotic enemy invading the earth. And they're not really too bad. The story demands a lot emotionally of the acting and in general the actors do a very good job of it. Not the typical Sci-Fi type film. More reality based. See for yourself.Movie Review: Dryer hose Legs and Arms!!!
Summary: 4 Stars
I had memories of this Film since I was 5 yeats old. Dreams of giant robots terrorizing people left behind in a city deserted. I found the DVD on Amazon and after viewing it for the second time in 48 years I enjoyed it as much the second time around.Movie Review: Old Fashion Sci Fi
Summary: 4 Stars
I enjoyed this movie years ago when I was younger. Believe it or not it is still as good as I remember. Suspense, bad acting, crummy special effects. This is how movies were made back then without all the flash and gore this is still a good movie.Movie Review: Solid "B" Sci-Fi Thriller
Summary: 3 Stars
In TARGET EARTH, director Sherman Rose presents an effective thriller that combines a creepy atmosphere of an uncertain menace with a resonant cry of existential loneliness. The first half is a powerful indictment of how people erect walls of solitude around themselves. A recent widower (Kathleen Crowley) awakens in a hotel room after what we later learn is a suicide attempt brought on by guilt over her causing a car accident that killed her husband. At the same time, Frank (Richard Denning) has been mugged and wanders the city in a daze. Both realize that the city has been evacuated. They meet and must learn to relate to each other before they can comprehend the crunching loneliness surrounding them. They meet a quarreling couple (Richard Reeves and Virginia Grey) who see their enforced solitude as an unexpected opportunity to get gloriously drunk. None of them has any clear idea about what has happened. They barely comprehend in rational terms the events leading up to this latest event. Until this point, TARGET EARTH works well as a study in enforced isolation, one that would later be used more than once in a future TWILIGHT ZONE episode. Then director Rose takes the film into the realm of 50s type science fiction. A newspaper headline tells them that "invaders" of an unknown type have attacked the city. As they walk the city, they see robots patrolling the streets with apparent orders to blast humans on sight with death rays. The second half devolves into a standard shoot-em-up with scientists led by veteran character actor Whit Bissel as a scientist seeking a means to defeat the invaders who come from Venus. The military interaction between robot and humanity is both predictable and vaguely reminiscent of the urban guerilla warfare that had been raging in Europe just ten years earlier. TARGET EARTH at least starts well before dissolving into a well-trod goo that even then had been a staple of the genre. Still, it is worth a view.