Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

As I understand it, Ib Melchior and Dave Hewitt had a falling out over 1964's The Time Travelers. Both are credited with coming up with the story, but Hewitt left the production and Melchior wrote the screenplay and directed this little sci-fi B-film classic himself. Hewitt wrote his own version of the movie and later directed it as 1967's Journey to the Center of Time, making just a slightly different version. I can't remember ever seeing what is essentially a remake arrive just three years after the first movie's release. But then again, both films were grist for drive-ins where few people probably noticed the similarities. These movies had me scratching my head wondering if I had seen it before on TV where, after repeated viewings, I was able to make the connection between the two films.

I wouldn't say this movie is "bad" because I was entertained for the most part though probably not in the way the director intended. The cast is pretty hilarious. Just watching these four "characters" wandering about is a sight for sore eyes. I liked the Kissinger-look-alike Scientist, the white-machinist-looking businessman Stanton (reminds me of the guy who does/did the horoscope for The Onion), and especially his buddy who stays behind looking over the shoulder of "Dave" while making the most inane comments and looking cheerful throughout. The memory of the women standing by the computers out in back brings tears to my eyes. There's also an pseudo-intelligent little twist towards the end - and the ending was cool.

I really liked two unique gimmicks of this movie.First, when they are traveling back in time, they discover they are on a collision course with another ship traveling forward in time. They try to hail the other ship, but it never responds. Finally when collision seems unavoidable and immediate, they fire on the other ship, destroying it. Later they suffer damage so they can't transmit, and then as they are traveling forward in time they discover they are on a collision course with another ship traveling backward in time, and on radio from the other ship they hear their own voices warning them, but with the radio out they can't respond. A perfectly consistent causality loop, well staged!! Near the end of the movie, the controls are damaged, and suddenly they go back into their own time, repeating the time-travel part of the movie at high speed. This is actually the part that I remembered fondly from when I was a kid, and yearned to see the whole movie again, but didn't know the name, until by chance I caught it on TV a few years ago and recognized it as that old lost movie, and this time I was prudent to learn the name of the movie!! I think the movie was totally hokey, but really nice, fun, unique, original, well worth watching if you like to see sci-fi that isn't just a clone of the standard themes of sci-fi. One of my two favorite sci-fi TV series was Blake's Seven, for the same reason, the Federation is *bad* not good, and the totally cheap special effects are exactly right every time, and unlike most such series, the end is **different** (I won't spoil it for you).

Others may call this the worst film ever made without offering reasons; perhaps it's time to analyze why this is so bad. Well, let's put analysis aside for a bit. This seems to be almost a remake of "The Time Travelers" from '64. Or perhaps, it's a parallel depiction of events in the space-time continuum, utilizing stock footage from that earlier film. But we can save such scientific observations for later. Where "The Time Travelers" was low budget, this is EXTRA low budget. This means most of the movie has to take place on the same set, in the same room. Any other sets are bare bones; anything in the background is just black space, a very minimalist approach. But we can describe such things later.The plot has to do with traveling into the future, to just before around the year 7000 AD. The group of 4 travelers chat with some visiting aliens there for a few minutes during a nuclear attack, then run back to their capsule and head back to a prehistoric past. Scott Brady, as a rich irresponsible businessman, manages to wreck everything he touches, including the cave they take refuge in (I was surprised by the set design here, which was beyond the $50 I'd been convinced had been spent up to this point). I give this more than one star due to the unique manner in which Brady manages to kill himself. But anyone should be forewarned by the credits in the beginning, which introduce a 'Poupee Gamin' as 'Vina.'