1 June 2004 | cheeseforever2005

6 | Classic B-grade Sci-Fi adventure

I remember as a kid sitting in an old run-down theater watching this movie on a Saturday afternoon and thinking "it doesn't get much better than this".



Rocket ships, laser gun battles with deadly aliens, risking your life for the "good of the planet".



Of course that was 1968 and this movie looks pretty unspectacular now compared to Star Wars etc. but it is a good example of the "space opera" of that period. A multi-national space station launches a ship toward an oncoming asteroid in the hope of preventing a collision with earth. Lives are risked but in the end disaster is averted and the asteroid is destroyed everyone is safe......but are they? What has been brought back to the station? Can it be stopped in time?



Good for those rainy afternoons with the kids, they may even enjoy it, you certainly will.