ridiculous rating

Let's be realistic.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Excellent science-fiction ideas and high moral purpose with classy actors- what could be better? A lot could be better- its too static, a general stasis pervades most of the scenes.A brilliant scientist is artificially trapped in a Stephen Hawking-esque existence. The film largely takes place in an eerie dark mansion that contains a laboratory with the usual oscilloscopes, and (since this was entering the modern era) a tape-drive computer console, yet another movie brain-in-a-tank sequence and other sci-fi components, all nicely done for the 1950's.Veteran stars of film and the New York stage with impressive acting credentials such as Otto Kruger and Mala Powers give solid performances, and fine actor Ross Martin is very good, both as a human and in his Hawking-esque voice only mode. I only mention Dr. Hawking out of respect, to illustrate how far ahead of its time the film's basic concept was.The actors at times have a curious lack of cohesion interacting with each other, a situation that is clearly the fault of the director, as is the slow pace, and in fact I would place all the blame for every fault of this film squarely in the lap of the director, who in my opinion seriously bungled what is otherwise a potentially very fine film. A reviewer here mentions the scene of a crowd just standing while being zapped- such stasis in scenes is inexcusable. And I agree with reviewers who decry the lack of a "rampage"- a good monster menace should ideally rampage around the city a little but this one doesn't (he moves around the city some while hidden in a clever way, but the result is: no rampage).I will give "The Colossus of New York" 5 stars out of 10 but wish I could give it a higher rating. Just can't do it.

Is there anyone in this world so indispensable that their continued existence is absolutely essential? That's the question that is posed to the viewers in The Colossus Of New York.Ross Martin plays the super achieving son of Otto Kruger in a family of geniuses. In said family Martin is the crown jewel, a world famous scientist who on the day he's awarded the Nobel Prize is killed in a traffic accident. The world mourns but not Otto Kruger who takes the body and does some Frankenstein like experiments.In short he puts Martin's preserved brain in the body of one rather large and powerful robot who can kill with a ray gun blast. The values he developed as a human gradually fade away.Watching The Colossus Of New York I thought back to this truly horrid film They Saved Hitler's Brain where some Nazis have concluded the genius of the Fuehrer must be preserved for eternity. This is a much better film, but the same principle applies. Applied in fact by a father who just will not accept his son's death at the height of his fame and ability to do good works.Not a big budget film, but it does give one a lot to think about. What are human beings without the packaging?

Although the title of this movie - "The Colossus of New York" - suggests that the Big Apple is terrorized for most of the running time, the title figure only goes on a (brief) rampage in the final few minutes. For just about the rest of the movie, the Colossus stays on a country estate near the city. Though it might have been more fun to show the Colossus on more of a rampage, the movie is still enjoyable. Certainly, there are some unintended chuckles, like the primitive science used to construct the Colossus. But there are actually some genuinely good moments here and there. The scene where the Colossus is first activated is both creepy and intriguing. And there are some pointed questions as to if the scientists are doing the right thing or not. Though the movie is cheap, there is some real atmosphere in part with the piano musical score, which gives this movie a really different feeling than other sci-fi movies of this period. Don't get me wrong - this isn't some intelligent masterpiece. But it manages to catch your attention, and at 70 minutes does not overstay its welcome.

Along with a few others, I too, must chime in with my 'thumbs up' opinion of this lost classic. I was fortunate to see nearly ALL of the horror/sci-fi 'Classics' in theaters during the 50's binge..when there was a new double feature nearly every other week.This one, stands quite a bit above all the others. The creep factor is high and it has some truly haunting moments. The piano score just adds to the muted terror. Cheap? Yep. But I think that adds to the atmosphere.Sure, I was a 'kid' when I saw all of these back then, but only a handful of these films were 'great'. 'Colossus' is hands-down one of the best of that era. If you watch it in the proper context, I'm sure you will agree.