Wonderful character development!

What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

When I was six, I was told that if you were ever in a runaway elevator, you wait till you are just about to crash, and then jump onto the bottom floor. That's the scientific principle at work here. Wait...there are no scientific principles. People keep saying what a great movie it is because it has such great characters. What it has are a group of stereotypical beings that you can find in virtually every disaster movie ever made. Science fiction does have the word "science" in it. This is a great movie if you don't think about the five hundred impossibilities that permeate it. It was disappointment to me as a child and it still is.

How can you even accept this as science fiction when there is no science. A star entering the solar system would be noticeable long before it passed the orbit of Pluto. As it comes closer and closer to Earth the temperature rise would mean life would be impossible on our planet. The jump then to an unknown planet circling the star is insane, since according to the film, the planet is just an easy jaunt away. Thus it too has been reduced to molten lava,This is an early disaster movie. If you're looking for science fiction you won't find it. I can't understand so many positive reviews. They must have been desperate to see the movie. Next time I recommend "Radar Men from the Moon"

Hayden Rorke and his team of astronomers in Johannesburg, South Africa discover a star and an accompanying orbiting planet are on a direct course for our solar system. In a year they will hit earth. Rorke dispatches Richard Derr to his colleague Larry Keating in the USA for confirmation. It's true the worlds will collide in about a year on August 12. When Worlds Collide is the story of a few scientists and their efforts to save mankind by taking a few over to that orbiting planet Zaira which will pass close before the star itself overwhelms earth with heat before the collision itself. It is mentioned that other countries are undertaking rocket building, but When Worlds Collide concentrates on the USA where the claims are met with derision by the scientific community so Keating and colleagues go out on their own. The main financial sponsor is multi-millionaire John Hoyt who believes his millions entitle him to some special consideration. The conflict between Keating and Hoyt is what drive the film.Below that there is a subplot involving Richard Derr and Keating's daughter Barbara Rush. He breaks in and steals her away from Peter Hansen who also works with Keating. The lack of name players gives a bit of realism to When Worlds Collide although these character actors are a pretty familiar lot. When Worlds Collide has come down to us via its reputation for its special effects because of the deserved Oscar it won. But director Rudolph Mate got good performances from his cast.It never ceases to amaze me how the invention of the computer is never factored in and it certainly was thought about and invented very shortly although those early machines were big. Among the necessary items thought for survival were books, the Bible, Principia Mathematica and the Encyclopedia Britannica. These of course would all be on discs now. This is the third science fiction film from roughly the same era and none of them imagined that one.Although the concepts are dated and the science fiction a bit flawed, When Worlds Collide still has great entertainment value.

The box from the film features 2 rave reviews about this talk-talk mess. One is from the Apollo Movie Guide. (?) The other from a respected sci-fi publication.Granted, it was filmed at a time when 3 for a nickel sci-fi flicks were being mass produced, but many of them were still fun and somewhat exciting to watch.This one was cheesier than a Kraft outlet, a world populated by so-so actors, with the exception of Richard Derr, who I found interesting to watch. I would have thought he would be a bigger name.The pseudo-intellectual conversations sounded like a pie-eyed politician trying to impress his constituents with his knowledge.Technically, the film was nowhere. The flood scenes? They looked like somebody filled a tub and put in some miniature buildings. The water was stirred with a big spoon.I sat through it but, after I send off this review, it will be tossed in the trash can.I won't have to worry about who lives or dies. The movie was dead after the titles came on.Yuck!!