Strong and Moving!

Redundant and unnecessary.

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Contrary to other reviews here, I would say that this film is vastly over rated given its current IMDb score.When I read the IMDb description, I could imagine so many interesting ways such a plot concept could unfold, and I was excited to watch this film. But the plot adoption is very, very thin and just straight out disappointing. A good amount of time is spend on the characters, but it never gets to any kind of depth or reveals any kind of relation to the plot at all. There seems to be little point in showing us most things they do actually. I am not even sure if there is a point anywhere in this film at all.It is very obvious that the film tries to mimic the tranquil space/tech scenes of 2001 that came out just months before it, but it completely misses the point of how and why those scenes are used. In Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, mundane and completely irrelevant scenes are dragged out to the point where concentration and interest vanishes completely. Half way through the film, I was very close to switching it off or go watch something else due to boredom. Even a lot of the effects are quite obviously copied from 2001, but also very poorly so. Even if you skip the obvious 2001 comparison, the effects are still rather unimpressive even for their time. There are films from the 50s with more convincing miniature model scenes for instance. The soundtrack is nothing worth writing about either.If I had watched it as a child, I could probably have ignored its many short comings and liked it due to the sci-fi setting of the film. As an adult I find it hard to recommend it though. There are some interesting props and beautiful 60s fashion, but that is about the only good thing I have to say besides the awesome plot idea (that is very poorly executed).

A clever, if implausible, premise with some trite dialog and an abundance of plot holes and goofs - not to mention numerous bad guesses on future technologies. You definitely have to suspend disbelief here, but the storytelling is good enough this isn't a huge issue.Some impressive production design and miniature effects foreshadows Gerry Anderson's later cult classic series 'Space: 1999'.Special effects hold up quite well - this movie looks better than many CGI-riddled features made decades later.And the climactic destruction of the launch complex is spectacular - miniature effects involving smoke, liquids and fire tend to suffer, it's even distractingly noticeable in Titanic, and troublesome enough that Terry Gilliam doesn't even attempt realism in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. But the explosions in this movie definitely don't look like miniatures, they're utterly convincing, comparable to footage I've seen of propane facilities and oil fields blowing up. The miniatures must have been quite large, and I can't imagine how they could have kept this under control in a closed indoor set. A jaw-dropping technical achievement.

Research is made into a new planet on the other side of the sun.Rare, hard to get science fiction film from British producer, Gerry Anderson (of Thunderbirds fame). But this is a live action movie with no puppets.The science in the plot is a bit average, but this is an all-round good film with male actors from other vintage sci-fi shows (QM's The Invaders and Anderson's UFO) and the musical score from Barry Gray is highly memorable.As others have stated, the ending is a bit different to what we normally get in Anderson productions, but I am just fine with how it ends.

I usually enjoy these stories of duplicate universes or staged time changes. James Garner's "Thirty Six Hours" was fun. Garner plays a US officer with knowledge of the D Day landings in World War II. He's captured by the Nazis, who pose as Americans, tell him he's been suffering from amnesia, that the war was over six years ago, and -- by the way -- he knew all the details about the D Day landings, didn't he? Everything is rigged to convince Garner than it's six years later than it actually is. But small puzzling discrepancies appear, one by one, and they add up. Then the movie falls apart at the end.In the early 60s, an hour-long episode of "The Twilight Zone," called "The Parallel," sketched out the story of an astronaut who experiences a curious flash of light in mid-flight. When he returns to Earth, he finds everything just as it was, but again with some minor but inexplicable differences. The house now has a picket fence. His rank has mysteriously changed (two grades up). And both he and his loving wife and daughter sense there is something strange going on. And there is -- he's landed in a parallel universe where everything is ALMOST the same as it is on earth, but not quite.I've spent some time on these two earlier stories because both of them are so much superior to this piece of derivative junk. Essentially, "Journey to the Far Side of the Sun" is a remake of "The Parallel", but with a bigger budget a far more irrelevant sub-plots. It's weakly written. Part of the fun of the earlier stories was in watching these discrepancies, each insignificant in itself, generate a sense of disquiet.Not here. After we're done with all the technological gadgets and neon lights and buttons being pushed and arguments that seem to come out of nowhere and for no reason, there are no tiny discrepancies. Instead, there is one BIG REVEAL. Yes, everything is the same in the astronaut's other world, except that the prose is written backwards. The moment Roy Thinnes notices this, he concludes that he's not back on Earth at all but on that planet on the other side of the sun. How can he make this intuitive leap? Nobody knows. Credo quia absurdum.The ending, while tragic, is unfathomable. They fix up a craft that will take him to his orbiting space ship but the rockets don't fire (or something) and the little model of his lifting body smashes into the space center so that the movie can end with a big explosion.The director was Robert Parrish, not an untalented guy, and an award-winning editor. For a time he was part of the John Ford stock company until, like so many others, he crossed Pappy and was exiled. He may have been asleep at the switch here, though God knows there's not too much you can do with a lousy script and a bland hero.