Title: Great restoration, weak film
Product review: I'm not a movie buff, so I'm not as enamored of this as some. Taken strictly on its merits, it's an old-fashioned sci-fi '50s style, with extremely wooden acting, ridiculous costumes and a troubling religious bent. Even so, the Technicolor restoration is awesome. Details are crystal clear. You feel transported back to 1952 LA in some scenes. The acting leads are pretty bad. In fact, there is no good acting here at all. The special effects are ok, by 1952 standards, I guess. They used the same look of the Martians for the newer Tom Cruise remake. The end is abrupt and somewhat unsatisfying. At one point, they drop an atom bomb on California while people watch like a Nascar race. Absurd, considering that radiation poisoning was well known then, seven years after Hiroshima. The rubes who discover the space ship are just dumb, annoyingly so.
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