GamerTab That was an excellent one.

StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Hitchcoc In the desert an alien presence is made known. It looks like a disembodied eye and could have been a cheesy film. What follows, however, is a really intelligent movie where the realities of such a report are made to be realistic. The press is a factor. There is a sense of disbelief by some of the principle characters. Also, there is serious effort to get a handle on what this thing is. As time goes along, we begin to embrace the characters and their needs an wants. And the alien is enough of a mystery to force us to speculate. Most of the outer space personages of the fifties were killing machines rather than sophisticated beings. See this. It's pretty good.

mark.waltz "There's a thousand ways that the desert can kill" says Richard Carlson after witnessing what he first believed is a meteor and later discovers to be space craft from an unknown planet. That is just one of many poetic observations made in this above average classic from the golden age of science fiction movies that is made on a reasonable budget yet is rather impressive in its ideals.After jumping in shock after mistaking a Joshua tree for an alien, Carlson's wife Barbara Rush becomes alternately cynical and very aware of the presence of something creepy from beyond. The alien, with an obvious telescopic eye, is able to transfer itself into human form, and they do just that with Russell Johnson. So with aliens running around as clones of human beings, the obvious question is what are they up to? The alien in Johnson's body promises not to steal his soul or his mind, but how do you trust obvious invaders from the beyond?What makes this a step above the average science fiction film of the 1950's is the way that it remains serious without taking it so seriously. Compared to others of this genre, this is a masterpiece and up there with "War of the Worlds" and "The Day the Earth Stood Still". It isn't even marred by Rush's recurring screaming. Some questions do arise, such as how do the aliens know how to drive? But the key emotional scene is when the alien warns Carlson over seeing what they really look like because of how ugly they are. By presenting the visitors to earth as emotional and thinking beings, the writers make them relatable and remind us that perhaps we are not as reasonable as we claim and perhaps reason is something that other species excel at beyond our comprehension.

gavin6942 A spaceship from another world crashes in the Arizona desert, and only an amateur stargazer and a schoolteacher suspect alien influence when the local townsfolk begin to act strange.The screenplay by Harry Essex, with input by Jack Arnold, was derived from an original screen treatment by Ray Bradbury; screen legend says Bradbury wrote the original screenplay and Harry Essex merely changed the dialogue and took the credit. Unusual among science fiction films of the era, the alien "invaders" were portrayed by Bradbury as creatures without malicious intent toward humanity.No doubt helped by Bradbury's script, this is a strong outing in the career of Jack Arnold, who made many memorable (but cheesy) science fiction films. This one seems more serious, more intelligent, and even the alien (when finally shown) looks excellent by 1950s standards.

Wizard-8 "It Came from Outer Space" is one of the more interesting sci-fi movies to come out of the 1950s, no doubt because the story was from the always interesting Ray Bradbury. It was one of the first sci-fi movies to present aliens that were not really evil. And it has the intriguing argument that mankind, at least in this present day, is not ready to deal with life from another world, even if that alien life doesn't mean any harm. It's interesting to see how that last argument is presented throughout the movie. Certainly, the sheriff and his posse are a real threat, but the lead character (the astronomer), while an intelligent man, makes several foolish decisions that show that even he doesn't have the stuff to deal with aliens properly. That's not to say that the messages in the movie prevent the enterprise from being entertaining. The movie's main purpose is to entertain, and it does it pretty well. Kudos also to the filmmakers for while making the movie in 3-D, not hitting the viewers over the head with stuff flying into the camera lens. Well worth a look.