Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Two great films of the 50': War of the Worlds and The Day the Earth Stood Still. Fabulous special effects, great heroes, and a message for the times. The director made it believable and appealing to all ages of viewers. What kid back then or today doesn't wish he was Bobby?

The movie was made one year before I was born. I remember seeing it for the first time when I was very young. It enthralled me. It still does. It installed a sense of the important of science and of the greater universe. It launched me in the direction of loving space and I ended up becoming a doctor. I am serious. It did exactly what a movie is supposed to do change our minds.

The movie is very relevant in the modern era. The human race is is killing each other and put a threat to its's own existence through war and deadly weapons.An alien comes to earth to warn us. They are have no problem to the destruction we make our-self. But, the are concerned about the peace of the universe out there. If the people on earth continue like this, and the biggest threat- nuclear weapon, the Alien's will be forced to demolish the earth itself.A very well made and interesting movie. For Those who have seen the Keanu Reeves-Scott Derrickson version, this will give you a relaxation. A must watch. Highly recommended.#KiduMovie

Directed by Robert Wise, with a screenplay by Edmund North that was based on a story by Harry Bates, this above average sci-fi thriller was added to the National Film Registry in 1995.The drama, which begins with a flying saucer landing in Washington D.C., involves an alien visitor named Klaatu (Michael Rennie) who, along with his bodyguard robot Gort (Lock Martin), has come to Earth shortly after our World had entered the nuclear age to advise us about peace and warn us about our own destructive aggression.Predictably, Klaatu is shot which, though it's somewhat accidental, causes Gort to exhibit his powerful ability (a heat ray) to annihilate our soldiers, their weapons and tanks. Klaatu is taken to a hospital where he recovers and then escapes, adopting the name Carpenter to walk anonymously among 'us' and learn more about Earth and its residents.Through widow Helen Benson (Patricia Neal), and her son Bobby (Billy Gray), Carpenter gets a sense of human nature which includes kindness, but events eventually lead to another confrontation and Helen's utterance of the classic line "Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!".Hugh Marlowe plays Helen's boyfriend Tom Stevens and Sam Jaffe plays Professor Jacob Barnhardt, the brilliant scientist who (naturally) seeks greater understanding. A young Stuart Whitman is recognizable (in his second movie role) as an uncredited Army sentry.#82 on AFI's 100 Most Heart-Pounding Movies list.