Calum Hutton
It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
Leoni Haney
Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.
Maleeha Vincent
It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
Richie-67-485852
The strength of this movie lies with the story. In the world of story-telling, I give this a ten easily. It fully captures the imagination of the viewer and has some really good points to explore and contemplate on. Space is always an interesting subject and if you add time-travel to it anything goes thus this movie. Who doesn't wonder about what things would be like hundreds of years from now? It is impossible to nail this premise down so we rely on any scenario to get us started. This story does that. These men manage to make it to Mars, map it and start back for home. From there, they encounter the unknown and because they survived it we have a story to be told. Another good thing about this movie is the ending which is left open for the viewer to imagine that anything is possible and it leaves you on that note. This movie also draws on the famous and most necessary theme of a "second chance" something every human being must have and craves. Hindsight sets this up nicely as we all discover what does not work and then we immediately want another opportunity to explore again. This is also known as "another bite of the apple" in our vernacular. Without that opportunity to begin again, our ending is guaranteed. The bible refers to it as "insight" and correctly states without it we will perish. Great movie to eat with while watching with a tasty drink and a snack to follow. If this movie was to be brought current and redone it would be on par with Star Trek or Star Wars as we start to explore the planet Earth all-over again especially after its near demise. Include the mutations of all life, survivor lessons and success stories too. The premise remains open-ended which gives it legs. Enjoy
AaronCapenBanner
A returning spaceship crew of four astronauts(including Rod Taylor & Hugh Marlowe) find themselves sent through a time-warp into the 26th century, where an atomic war has taken place, resulting in a primitive tribe of men on the surface, and a society of intelligent(but tyrannical) people living below. The astronauts discover that they likely can't get home again, and so must sort out this world if they have any hope of surviving(and dodge the odd giant spider!). Good cast, but silly film with a pulp-minded story and clichés. Still, it is interesting to note how this may have influenced "The Time Machine", "Planet Of The Apes", and even "Star Trek"! (Though they greatly improved on these ideas, and made them more imaginative.)
bkoganbing
World Without End has four astronauts on a Mars mission enter a time warp similar to what Charlton Heston and his crew encountered in Planet Of The Apes. Only they figure out before the end that it is earth about 500 years into the future where an atomic war has pretty well decimated the planet. Fortunately for them the world is not just the savage mutants they inhabit outside. There is a civilization kept alive in earth's caves. But they're a pretty pacific lot and frown on these 20th century types with their weaponry which simply consists of handguns.The four astronauts are Hugh Marlowe, Nelson Leigh, Christopher Dark, and Rod Taylor who would soon star in his own film about time travel. In the end it turns out that these guys and their knowledge of weapons come in pretty useful after all.The director of this film Edward Bernds who did this for Allied Artists. Bernds who started out working on Frank Capra films was a director of several Bowery Boy features for Allied Artists formerly Monogram Pictures. This was a man used to working with minuscule budgets and realizing that the film didn't turn out half bad.And unlike Planet Of The Apes it ends on a somewhat optimistic note.
LeonLouisRicci
Not as embarrassingly bad as some of its fifties family of sci-fi but it comes close. The script is semi-intelligent and has fewer inanities and laugh-out-loud, ludicrous lines. But, it is another silly costumed, cosmetic vision of the distant future. A rubber monster with few moving parts and silly not scary looking "mutates" diminish the rather neat looking spaceship and underground interiors that have that glossy looking germ free environment that so many housewives strive. Cue Mr. Clean.WWE has a pretension about it that is troublesome and can't help but propagandize itself. Weapons are the main point of contention and mentioned in almost every scene and rightly so. It was, after all, the war weapons that made the whole world almost end. But we have here the makers and users of those weapons arrive to save the day with, you guessed it, weapons.The mind of the cold war warriors is closed to any alternative to world peace other than MAD (mutually assured destruction). Mad is what these hack warmonger script writers and filmmakers should make you feel. Let's not ever forget it was sci-fi efforts like this that refused to take the pacifist point of view and presented a lock and load, mine is bigger than yours (bazookas) mentality, that forgave the causers of the "apocalypse", and say...that was great, may I have another.
