First off, let me just say, I love Italian sci-fi. Planet of the Vampires is one of my favorite films, and I love The Green Slime. I could go on. This film started reasonably strong, yet very heavy on the technogibberish (like technobabble but more nonsensical). There was the obligatory romance with the "hero", and love triangle that those Italians seem to love so much. Yet that went terribly undeveloped - I wanted to see more about the Janet character but she was barely there.
The space walk scenes were some of the worst ever filmed. Their awfulness was somewhat distracting, especially towards the end of the film where people just seemed to hover and swing back and forth over this allegedly high gravity asteroid thing. They should have explored the notion of it being alive; that could have been much more interesting. I really started losing interest in the last 30 minutes.
Still, very glad I watched it. Next up are The War of the Planets and The Wild, Wild Planet, which apparently are sister movies of sorts to this one.
The space walk scenes were some of the worst ever filmed. Their awfulness was somewhat distracting, especially towards the end of the film where people just seemed to hover and swing back and forth over this allegedly high gravity asteroid thing. They should have explored the notion of it being alive; that could have been much more interesting. I really started losing interest in the last 30 minutes.
Still, very glad I watched it. Next up are The War of the Planets and The Wild, Wild Planet, which apparently are sister movies of sorts to this one.