Wow! Such a good movie.

Fresh and Exciting

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Some blokes arrive in the sunken land of Atlantis, partly by accident, partly by design, and encounter despots and monsters. Shenanigans ensue.Coming out of the spasm of activity whereby Doug McClure was the action-man protagonist in a number of similar British fantasy movies, this is not vastly different to the others. An adequate plot serves as a satisfactory row of hooks on which to hang a series of action sequences involving "special effects" of a type which was all we had at the time. And like the other films, the monsters are men in monster costumes, filmed in slow motion on miniature sets, which was a bit lame even then. There is one bit where a monster eats someone, and it is quite clear the considerable effort everyone has to go to in order to get out of the way and almost help the fellow into the monster's jaws. Nitrogen narcosis doesn't exist in journeying to and from this undersea realm, and octopuses have menacing roars. That sort of thing.For all that, it is good natured and barrels along amiably enough. And Cyd Charisse, aged 57, shows that she still has a pretty good pair of pins.

one word to describe this movie: mediocre. sort of mad max (see the prisoners and the atlantean first cities ) meets sinbad (SFX would still be poor if dated 20 years earlier ) meets cable TV tripe, like those "lost/treasure island" short telepictures from the 1960-70s for a young audience. Acting is mediocre-to-poor. When gummy faced Mcclure plays the hot dud to impress the mad max belle, well...how corny can anything get? A superior race of martians defends itself using XIX century rifles and cannons? Do me a favor...lock the screenplay writer in a padded cell. They also try to add the victorian element, so well done and fitting in the earlier Dracula movies, yet with poor results here. All in all, rather than a real movie (yes, low budget and all ), it looked like an extended episode from some cable TV "adventure" series. They even try to add plot twists, but it gets even more laughable. Pathetic main actors; even ridiculous supporting cast. Perhaps Lea Brodie is the less pathetic one. Yes, you get monsters, but the Japanese ones decades older were much better. This tripe makes Harryhausen's SFX - a craftsman in his own right albeit very dated - look better than Matrix, Terminator II and Jurassic Park stitched together. Gummy faced Mcclure makes Arnold look like Laurence Olivier, and Gilmore makes Keanu Reeves better than Al Pacino, go figure.

This was the fourth - and last - fantasy adventure for the actor-director team of Doug McClure and Kevin Connor after THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT (1974; undeniably the best of the bunch), AT THE EARTH'S CORE (1976) and THE PEOPLE THAT TIME FORGOT (1977).The result - silly and terminally juvenile - is a disappointment: besides wasting a good cast (Daniel Massey, Michael Gothard and Cyd Charisse), the sci-fi trappings of the plot are ill-suited to the material; the hokey monster effects, then, seal the fate of this low-budget venture. In fact, the location shooting (in Malta, no less, and the smaller neighboring island of Gozo) is among the film's few assets!

The scientific community in general (and his father specifically) think that Professor Charles Aitkin is crazy to waste time trying to find Atlantis but, with the help of engineer Greg Collinson and a metal bubble with a hole in it, that is just what he plans to do. Finding a gold marker deep on the ocean floor, the pair raise it to their ship and return for another look. While down, they are betrayed by their crew and dumped on the bottom of the ocean. Of course, on the boat things are hardly that peachy either, as a giant octopus comes to the surface looking for the marker – dragging some of the crew under at the same time. The men all wash up on a beach which, given their depth underwater, is a surprise to all of them and they find themselves in a mysterious underwater city. Most of the men are taken to prison after a scuffle breaks out in the town but Aitkin joins the intellectual elite. Can they escape the clutches of these people – and will Aitkin even want to? Although it is hard to look back now and think that this movie was made after the special effects revolution of Star Wars, this is just one of the always popular genre of cheesy monster movies – many of the time that used Atlantis, prehistoric settings, Captain Nemo and other devices to explain large numbers of creatures that had been hidden from view. The plot may not be up to much but isn't terrible – the usual genre clichés abound and this familiar feel helps it appeal to those of us that grew up watching this trash. However, nostalgia to one side, it is fairly poor with little to recommend it for. The effects are trashy, big rubbery monsters that move in such a way that one would hope to have calmly walked away from them, never mind run; suffice to say that it is unlikely you'll be excited or thrilled by them – although the flying fish attack is hilariously reminiscent of the Muppets.The cast are not as rubbery but seem to move with the same stiff, deliberate movements in terms of performances. McClure has been so well lampooned by the Simpsons that it is impossible to take him seriously (if it ever was); he is hammy in a Captain Kirk sort of way and his performance never changes no matter the circumstances. Gilmore is the usual English scientist (will they never learn) and doesn't do anything other than fulfil the cliché. The support cast are roundly poor, with the usual stiff alien stuff from Charisse, Gothard and Massey, and the only one that was interesting was a young looking Ratzenberger.Overall, a typically clichéd and rubbery monster movie with some equally unconvincing performances from the cast. The plot is the mix of the usual "forgotten community on brink of destruction", "monsters" and "join us earthman" nonsense and it is unlikely to provide any more than the most basic distraction to viewers. Although nostalgia does have a part to play I suppose, and it can be unintentionally funny at times, but even still, it ain't a great deal of fun.