When Worlds Collide
(When Worlds Collide)
Reviews
Number of reviews: 2
Total points: 12
Average: 6.00/10
n°2 - 4/10 Steve
April 26, 2005
Terrific premise (from the novel by Balmer and Wylie), but pretty much a dud as a film. The main problems -- a load of treacly sentimentality. Everyone is so overwhelmingly noble that the "villain" in the piece -- a wealthy if somewhat nasty man who finances the construction of a rocket to save a handful of people from the doomed Earth, as long as he can be on it -- is the only character who seems human. And the pseudo-religiosity of the final frame is off-putting. To be fair, the production values are okay, and it isn't the kind of silliness that tends to give cinema SF a bad name; it's more mediocre than terrible.
n°1 - 8/10 Gregg Butler
May 25, 2003
For 1951 this is a very realistic depiction of what the end of the world would be like. Good acting, story line and graphics makes this a very good movie and I consider just as good as Deep Impact, which was 45+ years later. Solid A