Unusual mid-sixties science fiction story about three crash landed aliens who "recruit" a scientist and his team to make repairs on their ship, and pilot it back to their home planet. Reasonable effort, although slightly drawn out and uninteresting, still has moments of suspense and character drama. The usual Italian glamour is provided by the sexy wanna-be actress, who goes along with the team, and wears increasingly outrageous outfits, and flirts with one of the male aliens. The lead alien, a fire haired female begins to see the error of her emotionless ways, and at one point exhibits romantic inclinations towards Kirk Morris. Acting is fine, effects average, storyline meandering but rarely fatally dull, with a few good bits, such as a rather weird attack by a group of alien gorillas. Slightly lacking in traditional Italian high octane liveliness, but compelling, and not without a few interesting twists.
Pros;
-Interesting basic storyline
-Most of the film's acting is consistently competent and believable
-Good imagery – especially the pair of skeletons at the cockpit of the other spaceship
Cons;
-Ends rather abruptly
-Some of the movie's logic is questionable
-Quite a few characters are simply left as cardboard cut outs
-The alien race appear completely human and aren't especially convincing as such
-Main room of the spaceship set gets claustrophobic after a while
-A very long sequence where the characters are in space, changing an arial, kills the pace for a bit and is un-necessarily tedious
-A child-like robot is killed early on, and after only a minute's screen time, although its' design was not especially interesting
-Plot stretches thin in some places, as it is a fairly basic idea with little deviation to carry the film along
-A terrible voice over at the start
Pros;
-Interesting basic storyline
-Most of the film's acting is consistently competent and believable
-Good imagery – especially the pair of skeletons at the cockpit of the other spaceship
Cons;
-Ends rather abruptly
-Some of the movie's logic is questionable
-Quite a few characters are simply left as cardboard cut outs
-The alien race appear completely human and aren't especially convincing as such
-Main room of the spaceship set gets claustrophobic after a while
-A very long sequence where the characters are in space, changing an arial, kills the pace for a bit and is un-necessarily tedious
-A child-like robot is killed early on, and after only a minute's screen time, although its' design was not especially interesting
-Plot stretches thin in some places, as it is a fairly basic idea with little deviation to carry the film along
-A terrible voice over at the start