StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

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.

Melanie Bouvet The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

capone666 The CyclopsThe upside to being 50-feet tall is you can make money just by standing outside car dealerships waving.However, the mutated features of the colossus in this horror movie might scare off customers.When Susan's (Gloria Talbott) test pilot boyfriend Bruce (Duncan Parkin) crashes over a mysterious area of Mexico, she hires a pilot (Tom Drake) to take her, a scientist (James Craig) she just met and a shady mining consultant (Lon Chaney Jr.) to the cursed region where gargantuan creatures are rumoured to dwell.Unfortunately Susan's rescue party is more interested in harvesting the radium that turned Bruce into a mindless Cyclops than in helping her subdue him.Just one of many radioactive giant B-movies released in the 1950s, what sets this black-and-white jungle adventure apart is the Cyclops' unforgettable design and Lon Chaney's drunken performance.Incidentally, a thoughtful gift for a giant is a hot air balloon poncho. Yellow Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

Robert J. Maxwell Barely watchable. Maybe it helps if you're stoned to the point at which everything seems absurd, and you can appreciate the absurdity.Gloria Talbot's husband crashed in the Latin American jungle a long time ago and she hires a small plane with three guys -- James Craig (a kind of scientist), Tom Drake (the pilot), and Lon Chaney, Jr., a greedy slob who is quickly disposed of by the eponymous monster.The plane lands in a vast and veritable plano filled with uranium or some radioactive substance. The substance irradiates the living things in this wasteland and causes them to grow to enormous size. If they're already grown when they first encounter the radiation -- as Talbot's husband was -- well, too bad for them.This story has nothing to do with the Odyssey. The 50-foot-tall Cyclops is the remains of Talbot's unfortunate husband. He has a normal body but half is face is covered by an ugly prosthesis that shows his bare teeth. And he simply can't shut up. He's always going AGGHHH! or UNNHH! and sometimes his terminal contours indicate some sort of inquiry, as in AGGHHH? The male actors are schlubs, except for Lon Chaney, Jr., the booze-wrecked remnants of an actor who was once able to clear that bar. The poor guy sweats, trembles, and shouts -- more pitiful in his own way than the disfigured Cyclops.I've always liked Gloria Talbot, though she was more of a presence than an actress, with her sharply defined, pretty features. She had a sassy figure too, as revealed in a photo in the Navy Times, which I used to read when I still had a reason to. But she can do nothing to save this cheesy piece of trash.

henri sauvage Some day, film historians who have entirely too much time on their hands might attempt to settle the question of which is Bert I. Gordon's "best" cheesy sci-fi film -- which would require hair-splitting on such an infinitesimal scale that in the end it could probably only be resolved by gladiatorial combat.On the other hand, there should be near-universal agreement that this is hands-down his worst. "The Cyclops" is just plain dull, even though it at times rips off -- er, I mean, echoes -- the Greek legend of Ulysses and Polyphemus. Gloria Talbott is literally this movie's only redeeming feature: she's the reason I give it two stars out of ten, instead of one. Well, her and the classic Stinson Voyager monoplane.She certainly emotes her heart out, during that forty-minute scene -- OK, maybe it was only ten minutes, but it sure seemed much, much longer -- in which she and her mates have been trapped in a cave by her radioactively-enlarged, brain-damaged, horribly disfigured fiancé. Ever-versatile Paul Frees supplies the monster's voice, in what may be the longest continuous series of inarticulate grunts and growls recorded outside of a Screamin' Jay Hawkins session.One way you could look at this movie is as a test-bed for plot elements of "The Amazing Colossal Man" and especially its sequel, "War of the Colossal Beast". My advice to anyone who isn't a Gordon complete-ist, though, would be to skip this one and go straight to the other two, which despite their ultra-cheap special effects and lower end of the B-list actors are still somewhat entertaining.

Michael_Elliott Cyclops, The (1957) *** (out of 4) A woman (Gloria Talbott) travels to the Mexican desert to locate her husband whose been missing for three years. She finds him but he's now a huge, one eyed Cyclops. Here's a classic of the 50's sci-fi directed by Bert I. Gordon who would make a career out of these "man/animal grows big" films. The entire cast, including Lon Chaney, Jr. are a lot of fun and the dialogue gets some nice chuckles as well. Gordon made a lot of these "big" pictures throughout his career but I think this one here is the best of the bunch.