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

Best movie ever!

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

With a 1950's title like this, what's expected besides drive-in fare. I have to admit, I don't hold these cheapos to the same standards as uptown features. So I really don't care about most cost-cutters, such as using the same boat, or the same stretch of beach, or Jefty's road sign from 1948's noir Road House, or even peripheral logic, for that matter. What I do expect are a few horror jolts, of which this flick has almost none. For example, the hokey sea monster provides neither scares nor suspense. Also, I expect some sexy skin, which Downs does supply, especially in the upper reaches. Plus, there should be some good action, of which the 82-minutes supplies instead a lot of snorkeled swimming. And lastly, a low-budget story shouldn't be too long since that means padding. So, please tell me what purpose Helene Stanley's drop-in mystery woman serves. My best guess is she's supposed to be a commie connection.Actually the movie is more a character study than anything else, with wild-hair Whalen managing a nicely calibrated central performance. In fact, his conflicted Prof. King may be the movie's most interesting facet. Good also to see an aging Kent Taylor picking up a payday, even if he's too old for Downs. All in all, the 82-minutes amounts to an odd drive-in feature, as though the producers had a bunch of parts, but real trouble fitting them together. The flick's not bad enough to be funny, or good enough for a B-feature. In short, it's a drive-in dud.

This movie is interesting in that the acting is competent though the story is terrible. The special effects are also terrible. It was intriguing to watch and contemplate why they made such an inept movie. Evidently, they were able to sign decent actors to play the roles, but the people who put the whole thing together were unable to create a believable story. They wanted to create a story with a monster, but they didn't have the ability to make it do anything scary. The monster barely moves in the film. But since movies about the monstrous effects of radiation were common at the time, they figured they could put together something people might want to watch.This might be an example of what decent actors do in between good roles. When they can't get anything decent, they take roles like this to make a few bucks.Actually, the story isn't completely stupid. But the makers apparently could not afford to pay anyone to storyboard the film or plan how to make the monster scary. In the past, I've thought what a horribly tedious job story-boarding must be, but when you see this film, you see why it's important. You have to lay out in detail what the visuals will look like.

Fishermen are turning up dead on a beach, burned to a crisp. A g-man turns up to investigate and meet an mysterious doctor who's also curious about what's happening. Thus begins Phantom from 10,000 leagues, a film that involves a kind of mini-Godzilla preying on the locals while everyone in town sneaks around spying on each other.Dr Steve (or whatever he was called) is trying to find Dr King, professor at the local college who's acting awfully suspiciously. Dr King is being spied on by his secretary, and also his assistant George, and I'm guessing also Dr Steven and the G-man. Dr Steve heads out to investigate the water and finds a beam of light caused by uranium and a strange creature who tries to put the bit on him. Hooking up with Dr King's daughter, he tries to get to the bottom of what's going on, and not get killed in the process.Although it's a fairly decent man in a rubber suit film, Phantom spends an awful lot of time on the drama and intrigue sides of things as we watch everyone spying on everyone else, following each other around and blackmailing each other. The creature itself doesn't seem to do much of anything, as it doesn't leave the area where the uranium is. I could have done with a murderous rampage by the creature but it just sort of swam around a bit.Your tolerance for this film is going to depend on how much action you need from a film. There's not much to go on here but it wasn't that boring either, just an okay time waster. You've got to love a guy in a rubber suit so I've gone easy on this film due to that.

This _unambitious, even messy Sci Fi thriller has some nice sexy touches—like a beach scene, a shower scene-- which even give it a slight resemblance to the old TV shows; in a word, after a few mysterious deaths on a peaceful shore, two investigators are fooled to take over the case, one is a regular cop, the other a handsome scientist whose books' covers look like those of the movie stars'. In a few ordinary shots, we are subtly given to fathom that there was a creepy connection between the unexplained deaths and a presumably hideous underwater floating toy.All the characters are basically uninteresting and even ugly—perhaps even the two sexy ladies who try to enchant us with their shapes; instead, these characters are many. Ugly, but many. There's the handsome scientist—and there's also the frankly old one; there's the oldster's daughter, and there's the evil woman who plots one knows not what; there's the cop—and there's the treacherous villain associated with the mentioned vamp. There's also an ugly toy—the underwater floating toy.For me, The Phantom from 10000 Leagues was basically and fundamentally boring—for reasons of lack of style, and a little skill could have enlivened it; but do not feel disheartened and annoyed. Maybe you will like The Phantom.