Review of This Island Earth

This was in a box-set I got on sale, with seven pictures from this time and in this genre. I haven't watched many of them, but while the FX of this are arguably only decent(with that said, that suit ain't bad), the designs of gizmos are reasonably interesting, and this certainly does deliver all you could hope for in one of these; campy alien beings, a nicely done foreign planet, cool labs and spacecraft, some pseudo-science(portions of which are rather questionable now that we know more...!) and, well, *fun*, with crap blowing up and being/catching on fire. It is also worth noting that for the xenophobia this does have, it doesn't paint *everything* we don't know or immediately recognize or understand as dangerous and something to be avoided. It is genuinely tense at points. The sexism can be annoying; however, it is not as strong as in others of these. Domergue is attractive. The characters are fairly well-written and credible, if not necessarily memorable. Editing and cinematography are average. The acting is good, and the leads are likable. There is a little minorly bloody violence in this. I recommend this to any fan of sci-fi movies from the period. 6/10