Earth vs. the Flying Saucers

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Ian S @RT48225084 Nov 9, 2025 Marlowe and Taylor work well together in the lead roles. Maybe not top tier 50's sci fi but entertaining all the same. Pretty good. See more Blu B @RT43513976 Sep 23, 2025 It's ok. Pretty standard 50's B Movie Sci-Fi stuff. I'd say it was probably very impressive for it's time (which to a degree it was) but Forbidden Planet was released the same year and War of the Worlds came out a few years before that. So I'm sure even than this looked a bit cheesy. The special effects are quite the buffett of stock images, minitures, stop motion, clever editing and practical work. You can see the ambition in seqeuences like the end attack on the capital at times. Problem is, it's very dated looking at times and nowhere as clean or impressive as some of the best from this era. The acting is pretty wooden and stock. The characters are super forgettable like the humans in the Sonic the Hedgehog movies. The direction is pretty basic stuff also and doesn't match the ambition in the effects. The plot is just a standard aliens attack and our plan to save the world. Pretty standard stuff, nothing executed particular bad or well, makes perfect sense but is just very dry and boring at certain points. I swear the final 15 minutes feels like 45. The action can just drag at times surpsingly for such a short runtime. This feels like it's over 2 hours. It gets expose heavy at times to and just feels like it isn't the clearest when trying to make things work smoothly though it does make perfect sense. Skip this. Nothing really much more to say besides there are tons and tons of better alien invasion movies out there. See more Dave S @RT68722908 Jul 31, 2025 Once you get past the fact that the aliens look a bit like humans disguised as fire hydrants and that the alien translation device looks a lot like a snot-soaked, luminescent wad of tissue, and that the whole thing is terribly predictable (we’re still walking around on the planet, so you kind of know who wins), Earth vs. the Flying Saucers is actually a pretty decent little sci-fi movie. It moves along at a really nice clip, Ray Harryhausen’s special effects are more than decent, the acting and the script are solid, and the production values are respectable considering the fact that it’s a low-budget B movie. Compared to other movies of its genre from the same time period, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers stands up quite nicely. See more Lautaro M @RT49158812 Jul 28, 2025 This is the most amazing movie I've ever seen! this movie is so creative and soulful than todays movies. See more Liam D @Mediawatcher2003 Jul 5, 2024 Made during the height of Cold War tension this sci-fi thriller has some Campy b movie delights with effects by the legendary Ray Harryhausen (Mighty Joe Young, The Valley of Gwangi) See more Jack S @RT58840043 Dec 31, 2023 Generally well made but hokey sci-fi that's impossible to take seriously since Tim Burton's amusing send-up, Mars Attacks. But the special effects are actually quite good for the era plus, the finale—where Washington DC is devastated (mostly by crashing flying saucers knocked out of the sky by humans, rather than alien attacks!) is really very exciting. See more Read all reviews

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