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Title: Can't believe this is a classic
Review: I watched this while trying to keep in mind the socio-political setting in which it was made - early '50's - Korean War, Red Scare, Congressional hearings on Communist infiltration of the US Government..and the movie does has its moments and the feeling of paranoia is there. But, the last 15 minutes or so as we watch the soldiers and "Martians" endlessly run through the web of tunnels around the alien ship is mind-boggingly dull. The set up of the plot is really well down, as has been described here in other reviews, the boy unearths a plot by aliens to take over and control humans, but once we start seeing the seemingly endless montage of military vehicles being brought into place around where the alien ship supposedly is, the film just loses it. From that point, there is no plot. Just because this was one of the first sci-fi films in color doesn't mean it can hold a distinquished place in film history.
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