SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Another classic from the vault of the Million Dollar Movie in New York. Watched it over and over again. Nora King (Kathleen Crowley) wakes up to an empty boarding house. Walks outside and realizes there's no people around. Sees a dead woman with her eyes wide open screams and a chain smoking Richard Denning catches up with her. Next they meet up with two alcoholics Virginia Grey and Richard Reeves who are celebrating like it's 1999. Anyway next they find this paranoid yammer Charles Otis (Mort Marshall) who was scouring the city and also came to the same conclusion that their city is invaded by Robots hence lack of people around. Otis has no patience and runs out only to get the death ray sprayed on him. The others look in horror and make their way to a high rise apartment away from the deadly cathode ray tubed robots. After being settled in their high perch above the city another straggler finds his way upstairs and breaks in on our foursome survivors.Enter actor Robert Roark portrayed as Davis a two bit crook with a pistil who quite frankly is annoying and plays his role as a scoundrel to the max. Now there's trouble upstairs and trouble below for our vicarious foursome. Meanwhile the movie cuts away to a lab miles from the city. Chief scientist Whit Bissel and his staff work diligently for a way to destroy the mechanical menaces buy using ultra sound to destroy their face tubes. Can the army get to our feared foursome in time? Will Davis use his gun on the four at bay? I had some issues. You never see more than one robot at a time. Secondly how did our alcoholic friend sober up so expeditiously? Thirdly I would have loved to see a mass evacuation at the beginning of the movie . That would have been something to behold but the budget was low AND WE'LL HAVE TO LEAVE IT TO THE IMAGINATION!! The Diary Of Ann Frank would be much more suitable viewing hiding for Nazi turmoil than these four hiding from clumsy robots which at the right angle you could probably tip over. Hard to watch this sci-fi schlock movie more than once.

***SPOILERS*** 1950's cold war hysteria movie where the bad guys are not the commies, Russian or Chinese, but robots from outer space who have taken over an unmanned US mid western city and are using it as their operational headquarters for the eventual takeover, violent takeover, of the United States. All we see of this invading force, due to budget restraints, is one bumbling robot who has trouble putting one foot in front of the other and looking like he or is it is in danger of keeling over and landing flat on it's face. Two of the people who for some reason weren't evacuated from the city, by the US Army and National Guard, traveling salesman Frank Brooks, Richard Denning, and attempted suicide victim Nora King, Kathleen Crowley, have to find a way to get back to the US Military who is surrounding the city before they get zapped by the slow moving robot with its death ray.If it wasn't for the comedic looking and acting robot, who comes across like a walking junkyard, the movie would have held our attention in how scary the situation that both Frank & Nora as well as later, the two other are are stranded in town, Vicki Harris & Jim Wilson, Virginia Grey & Richard Reeves, are in. The true tension in the film is when out of nowhere convicted murderer Davis, Robert Roark, shows up and holds the quintet hostage in him planning to use them as human shields, for "Robbie" the Robot, to zap as he makes his getaway through the city sewer system. Davis also has the hots for the cute and sexy Nora who wants her to take off, through the sewer system, with him while the robot finishes the reminding survivors off.***SPOILERS*** It's in the end that the US military and it's top nuclear scientist, Whit Bissell, who saves the day and the nation by finding out what makes the invading army of robots, we only see one in the entire film, tick and thus disable them with out blowing up the entire nation with a massive nuclear strike. As for Davis he overplays his hand by getting too confident in his ability to control the situation that he slips up badly and gets his neck rungs by a fatally wounded Wilson who by now, after he plugged Wilson's girlfriend Vicki,just about had all he could take from him.

Considering that this film was made on a tiny budget that wouldn't even allow the creation of more than one robot costume for the film (as well as the robot looking awfully silly), this is an amazingly successful film. That's because despite the budget, the writing was awfully good and the lesser-known actor (Richard Denning) who played lead was very good as well. Denning is best known for playing the recurring role of the Governor in "Hawaii 5-0 but here in a much earlier role he's more than up to the task.The film begins with a lady awakening to find that the city is deserted. What few people she does find are dead. Eventually, she finds Richard Denning alive and well. It seems both had been unconscious during the night when some evacuation was ordered--but why was the city evacuated and how did the people who were left behind die? Later, they meet several more stragglers who are left and they find a newspaper that announced that the city was being invaded! By whom is discovered quickly when they see a killer robot walking the streets--the invasion was not from our planet! So how are they able to make this idea work? Well, the writing was very good and excelled when the film investigates human nature--the sign of a good sci-fi film. How the people react (some good, some bad) and how the humans are able to eventually defeat the robots is pretty exciting stuff.

Crackerjack opening: awakening from a deep, self-induced slumber, Nora King discovers a strange new world. Imagine, for a moment, you wake-up, after an evening of popping pills, to find that everyone has vanished. You are left alone in a quiet, empty metropolis. You search the city streets and edifices for signs of life. You find nothing. And fear begins to creep into your thoughts. Target Earth, a b-movie pioneer from the 50's, begins in such a manner. It's a powerful beginning. After about ten minutes of screen time, Miss King meets a business man, Frank, from Detroit. A few stops later they hear music and stumble across a married couple, bickering and boozing it up at a high class joint. A nervous fellow soon joins the quartet--but is dispatched quickly by one of the army (never seen) of robots from Venus. Of course this makes very little scientific sense on any reasonable level. But we are along for the ride, anyway. I enjoyed the performances by the four main characters. I also felt Robert Roark's "killer" was quite good and smart. Towards the end we get a burst of ice cold violence. Not unexpected. The one mechanical man we do see is properly menacing despite the crack in his view plate. I wish the final had been filmed on the roof of a real building, instead of an indoor set. And a few more shots of the robot vaporizing some soldiers would have been appreciated.