Interesteg What makes it different from others?

Micitype Pretty Good

Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Benas Mcloughlin Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

chewbacca37 If you are under the age of 75......You did not see it when it came out.And it was never shown on TV.Why you might ask?It's boring compared to pretty much anything else available Of similar genre and cast of that time frame.Character development is non existent. Well that's not true. After about 10 minutes of the film goes by..... Every character has developed an annoying vanilla quality.I turned it off and switched to moon-raker.Jaws with his shiny steel teeth... James Bond... Space ships. That is all.

AaronCapenBanner Roy Thinnes(David Vincent from "The Invaders") and Ian Hendry star as American astronaut Glenn Ross & British astronaut John Kane, who helm a spacecraft that is sent to explore a newly discovered planet in the same orbit as Earth, but on the other side of the sun. The mission unfortunately is jeopardized when they make a crash landing on the planet, and discover that the unidentified world is eerily similar to their own...Good cast of actors bring this intriguing story to life, with effective model work and F/X of the spaceships and control center(Eurosec) Story had been done before on "The Twilight Zone", but this film is more ambitious and intelligent, leading to a most appropriate end based on a visual realization(quite a nice touch!) Not that emotionally involving, film still works regardless.

Robert J. Maxwell I usually enjoy these stories of duplicate universes or staged time changes. James Garner's "Thirty Six Hours" was fun. Garner plays a US officer with knowledge of the D Day landings in World War II. He's captured by the Nazis, who pose as Americans, tell him he's been suffering from amnesia, that the war was over six years ago, and -- by the way -- he knew all the details about the D Day landings, didn't he? Everything is rigged to convince Garner than it's six years later than it actually is. But small puzzling discrepancies appear, one by one, and they add up. Then the movie falls apart at the end.In the early 60s, an hour-long episode of "The Twilight Zone," called "The Parallel," sketched out the story of an astronaut who experiences a curious flash of light in mid-flight. When he returns to Earth, he finds everything just as it was, but again with some minor but inexplicable differences. The house now has a picket fence. His rank has mysteriously changed (two grades up). And both he and his loving wife and daughter sense there is something strange going on. And there is -- he's landed in a parallel universe where everything is ALMOST the same as it is on earth, but not quite.I've spent some time on these two earlier stories because both of them are so much superior to this piece of derivative junk. Essentially, "Journey to the Far Side of the Sun" is a remake of "The Parallel", but with a bigger budget a far more irrelevant sub-plots. It's weakly written. Part of the fun of the earlier stories was in watching these discrepancies, each insignificant in itself, generate a sense of disquiet.Not here. After we're done with all the technological gadgets and neon lights and buttons being pushed and arguments that seem to come out of nowhere and for no reason, there are no tiny discrepancies. Instead, there is one BIG REVEAL. Yes, everything is the same in the astronaut's other world, except that the prose is written backwards. The moment Roy Thinnes notices this, he concludes that he's not back on Earth at all but on that planet on the other side of the sun. How can he make this intuitive leap? Nobody knows. Credo quia absurdum.The ending, while tragic, is unfathomable. They fix up a craft that will take him to his orbiting space ship but the rockets don't fire (or something) and the little model of his lifting body smashes into the space center so that the movie can end with a big explosion.The director was Robert Parrish, not an untalented guy, and an award-winning editor. For a time he was part of the John Ford stock company until, like so many others, he crossed Pappy and was exiled. He may have been asleep at the switch here, though God knows there's not too much you can do with a lousy script and a bland hero.

bean-d "Journey to the Far Side of the Sun" (1969) is a beautiful movie with impressive special-effects (given the year) and is well worth watching, although ultimately disappointing. Part of the problem lies with the script. First, the initial fifteen minutes of the film feature some impressive espionage by Herbert Lom for which he is murdered, but this vignette seems to have nothing to do with the rest of the film. Second, the main theme of the film--that a second, identical Earth has been found behind the sun in orbit directly opposite of our Earth--is never explored beyond the superficial. Apparently the only things that distinguish this second Earth are that words are backwards and our internal organs are on the opposite sides. Oooh, wow. Perhaps if the producers had not spent so much time in the filming of the space-flight special effects, they could have dedicated more time to exploring the paradoxical effects of a reverse Earth. Still, the film does have an allure; you can feel the sincerity of the filmmakers.