It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

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.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

A movie that starts out boring you to tears with a conference room sequence where the main scientists are trying to explain the technical aspects of time travel to a narrow-minded corporate exec. Turns out the audience ends up more confused by all the verbal masturbation than Jim Brady as the exec.The budget here is so small that the time machine seen in long shots looks like a model of a metallic sphere. But when we see the cast of scientists moving in and out of the thing, it is merely a vault door! Clearly the production team was influenced by Star Trek's Enterprise Bridge (classic series) when they built the interior set of the time machine: it is round with a lowered floor, complete with a railing that runs around the edge of the upper platform, with a large viewing screen at the other end of the room.After landing thousands of years in the future we're greeted to Lyle Waggoner and some other actors looking rather goofy as 'men from the future' wearing vests, silver 'Hammer Time' pants and over-sized boots. In the future, for some reasons, people stand around and orate on pedestals of varying heights.....very odd, that scene.The only scenes that included anything CLOSE to 'production values' were the prehistoric jungle, and cave sequences. Looked to me like Producer/Director David Hewitt got permission to film those scenes at 20th Century-Fox where TV series like "Lost in Space" and "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" used fairly impressive cave sets extensively. Likewise, I suspect the jungle scenes were filmed on the "Land of the Giants" set as the JTTCOT similarly had a foggy-type look to it. Otherwise, this film featured schlocky, minimalist sets (aka Limbo sets).The movie had too many gruelingly long scenes where the crew of the time machine (and the audience) is looking at various periods of time (mostly footage of wars) through the main view-screen. This movie just dragged on and on and on. Finally ending with a twist on the story of 'Adam and Eve'.Hewitt actually stole a cue from Irwin Allen's "Time Tunnel" series by having a band of young people back at "Time Central", a sort of mission control for the time machine. Funny thing: it was never included in the early scenes prior to the launch of the time machine, making it appear as though director Hewitt shot the 'Time Central' scenes later, as an after thought (or perhaps because he saw Allen's "Time Tunnel" and decided to copy the 'back-at-the-lab' setup for his film). Interesting that similar reel-to-reel type computers seen in "Time Tunnel" appear in JTTCOT.I guess Producer/Director David Hewitt wasn't thrilled with 'The Time Travelers' and so did this film in 'retaliation' against his former partner, Ib Melchoir. Either that, or perhaps Hewitt wanted to 'cash in' on the time-travel theme since "The Time Tunnel" TV series was in production at the time this movie was being filmed. Whatever the reason, this movie fails on so many counts that -- to me -- it's probably THE WORST movie I've ever seen. It sucks on (1) Acting, (2) Production Design (?), (3) Special Effects (?), (4) Screenplay, and (5) Music. It literally has NOTHING to offer. And yet both Brady and Abraham Sofer are true character actors that have done much better before and since this turkey.I bet you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who would actually ADMIT to sitting through this garbage when it was originally run in theatres.Sadly, I can only recommend this celluloid monstrosity to a true insomniac.

Okay so i got this movie when i was REALLY young. My parents loved to buy me old sci-fi and monster movies such as godzilla and gamera when i was a kid. So i have a huge appreciation for old sci fi movies. Especially sci fi b-movie's and that is what this is.This is not a movie i would suggest to anyone looking for a quality piece of cinema.But if you have an appreciation for low budget , poorly shot and written movies this is the one for you. There are points in the movie that are so confusing that i have NO CLUE what they are talking about. It seems like the writers were just like how possibly confusing can we make this. AH HAH!! Long sequences with massive amounts of dialoge with large words that can some how relate to science!! Its a good movie to fall asleep to as well.

One of countless low-budget sci-fi films to come out of the 50's and 60's, this one collects a few mid-level stars who had apparently fallen on hard times and pits them against some very poor sets and special effects. Sofaer (who has the distinction of receiving "Special Guest Star" status in the billing) is scientist who, along with his comrades Eisley and Perreau, is attempting to master the art of time travel. When the blow-hard new owner of the research company (Brady) informs Sofaer that his experiments are going to be cancelled unless some results are forthcoming, the team gives the project one last go. This results in them careening through time, hopping back and forth from the future to the distant past and back again. One trip puts them in the company of alien Waggoner who introduces the team to his leader, a silver-faced lady in a plastic hat played by Gamin (billed in the credits as "Introducing", though she was done and gone from the biz within a year. Another trip has them besieged by a prehistoric creature (basically, a lizard.) Brady, looking startlingly bloated and rotund, gives his role a lot of aggression and pigheadedness, but emerges looking rather foolish. Eisley pretty much walks through his part, though there certainly isn't much to work with. Perreau, sporting a large bouffant, is equally bland. Sofaer resembles Henry Kissinger in some ways and, though he isn't very good, provides a modicum of acting talent to the movie. Davis and Olsen play two technicians who work in the present day to return the team to their correct time. Davis is handsome and not too hard to take, but Olsen grows tiresome quickly with her various exclamations and her endless fiddling with the controls (as a completely worthless and unintentionally hilarious collection of female technicians piddle around in the background.) Irwin Allen's TV show "The Time Tunnel" (from which this film draws some degree of inspiration, to use the word loosely) also gave Lee Meriwether and others this same type of tedious, repetitive role. It's a safe bet that Waggoner conveniently leaves this film off his resume, though he isn't in it long enough for it to matter much. The entire production looks cheap and dull. During the time travel sequences, the camera rotates inside a model of the lab with little DOLLS of the lead characters spinning around and holding on for dear life! This is worth one good chuckle alone. It isn't a harmful film. It's just a fairly pointless and useless one.

This movie which I own on VHS is really not that bad as some have stated. Sure it could of been made better IF they had a bigger budget but overall the action and story are quite entertaining. Of course this movie is a lot better IF one drinks a bottle of fine wine FIRST and then gets into the movie.. I still enjoyed it and hope it will be available on DVD and in a 5.1 Surround sound....this a a " B" Science Fiction film not at all in the same league as WAR OF THE WORLD'S or THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL but give it a chance and you just might find it quite enjoyable as I did.ZD