ChicDragon
It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.
Senteur
As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.
Neive Bellamy
Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
Rainey Dawn
If you want a film to help you to fall asleep - this is it. The mundane tone of voice the narrator uses (same with the actors) will send you into dreamland in no time flat. It's as if they are saying Americans have no personality, they are monotoned in voice and the Russians have the bigger guns (in their highly reserved monotoned voices).Basically the movie is what it is: boring propaganda on film. This flick is so lame I can hardly make fun of it. I would have more fun watching a snail cross the street than watching this trash. But then again if I watch it, it might help me to sleep by popping this into the player haha! Stock footage and boring people with a story of propaganda is all this really is. And not even good enough to make fun of - just boring! 1/10
Woodyanders
American spy John Manston (insipidly played by John McKay) goes to Moscow to find out about the Russian missile program. He discovers that the Russians have amassed the necessary data they need to make a nuclear weapon. Boy, does notorious schlockmeister Barry Mahon totally fumble the ball with this hopelessly dull clunker: The blatant use of grainy stock footage, lousy (far from) special effects, blah acting from a lame no-name cast, sluggish pace, the talky and uneventful script, a drippy narrator working mad overtime to keep the plodding and barely coherent narrative on course, infrequent and flatly staged action, cornball film library score, a crippling paucity of tension and momentum, static cinematography, and a complete fizzler of a would-be "shocking" climax all ensure that this dreadful stiff qualifies as an absolute grueling chore to endure. Only familiar character actor Art Metrano as a jolly truck driver manages to inject some much-needed life into this lethargic dud. A dismal yawner.
jim riecken (youroldpaljim)
This atomic war/spy thriller may be one of the cheapest non-pornographic films ever released commercially. It is not surprising considering that this film comes from an industry that rarely ventured into anything as mainstream as science fiction films and spy thrillers. Barry Mahon and company worked mostly in the lowest end of the film industry; producing cheap semi-pornographic films. Click to his filmography and you will see what I mean. At least half the film is comprised of stock foot-age. Most of it not very good. The scenes of the rocket in space are done in poor cartoon animation and look like it was culled from some boring classroom film. Forget the fact the acting is bad, the dialogue lame, and lack of any real action make this film rough going. The film does become slightly interesting towards the end, but it is not enough. God forbid the trendies and the pseudo hip (like the people who only know these old films from watching MST3K) discover Barry Mahon! A little trivia; the truck driver near the climax of this film is stand up comedian Art Metrano.
InzyWimzy
Quick checklist: There's a rocket. There's the USA; well mostly Russia. There is a threat of an attack. Guns are fired. Spies do their thing. Soldiers with bad russian accents ponder the term `credibility'. Oh, there's also a bald russian guy who drinks a lot and paws poor American spy girl. A rather heavy American couple part company and he promises to get a tie. Other than, nothing much happens in this good simulation of purgatory. There are a lot annoying BLEEPS and WOOO sirens. Good stock footage of New York, planes taking off, rockets firing. I also loved the rocket which was so advanced it had no shadow.This movie was great...till it began.
