Lele This is a sci fi movie for the following reasons: 1. At 34.35 when Maj.Huglin runs after Dr.Marvin, Mrs.Marvin was ready to jump into the car, dressed with her overcoat on, while a few seconds before she was in bed in her pijama. I wish my wife could do that! In 33 years of marriage I have to wait at least half an hour to get her ready.2. Dr. Marvin is always perfectly shaved even when he and his wife are stuck in the soundproofed room in the bunker. The other character are perfectly shaved, and even General Hanley zombified by aliens, too. Female character's make up is always perfect, when she just woke up and even when she is sleeping!3. Eyewitnesses are never not believed by military. Not just any Mr.Smith, but the director of the Sky Hook project!4. Military shoot their pathetic bullets against energy shields flying saucers also after they have seen with their eyes that UFOs have disintegrator rays.5. Revolutionary deadly weapon against invaders from outer space is ready in a couple of weeks and it works perfectly from tracks in Washington. Even if alien invaders have threated all the superpowers in the world (and we suppose that hundreds of UFOs are attacking the main cities of the world), half a dozen flying saucers down in US capital are enough to save the world.Please notice the amazing Independence Day quotes 40 years in advance! Actually I gave Independence Day even less score because you CAN'T program a virus for an alien operating system and need to shoot it physically into the alien starship causing their defeat. Just you CAN'T. Sci fi has some rules you know...Special effects are the best thing in the movie. The script looks like they wrote it in a lazy afternoon. Still it has some improvement with respect to the War Of The Worlds (1953): you can actually see and hear the aliens. Aliens are vulnerable. A rifle does kill them. We know why they are here.Anyway nothing to do with the great The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), (Italian "Ultimatum To The Earth" is a better title, I think)Is deserves a watch, but remember that The Forbidden Planet (same year, 1956) is far beyond this average, forgettable movie.Hope this can be useful.

mice-13 My sister took me to this movie in 1956 when I was 8. It shocked me. For two weeks I was afraid to go to sleep at night for fear of nightmares. Some years ago I bought a 16mm print and studied it. It has all the right elements for a nerdy kid with glasses: Beautiful Joan Taylor and serious Hugh Marlowe work well together. The lonely laboratory at night is a wonderful location, frightening when attacked. Dr. Russell A. Marvin removing the helmet from the alien is particularly creepy. We know so much more now about outer space, so to appreciate this you have to suspend disbelief and travel back in time when comic books were 10¢. Soon after seeing this movie I was bitten by the movie bug which resulted in a lifelong passion for films and animation, which I have to credit to the intense effect that Earth Vs the Flying Saucers had on my young mind. I still watch this film several times a year and never get tired of seeing it.

wbswetnam With a title like "Earth vs the Flying Saucers", my expectations were low. I expected poor acting, terrible special effects, bad lighting, etc... fortunately I was wrong. This is a surprisingly good movie! It does not drag anywhere - no boring side stories, no attempts at lame moral lessons for the audience; it moves right along from beginning to end. The "scientific explanation" for how their anti-UFO weapon works is a bunch of ridiculous mumbo-jumbo: "We try to interrupt their magnetic field by projecting a highly intermittent induced electrical field." Huh??? But if you can forgive this and the anti-UFO weapon itself, which resembles a satellite dish with a sheet metal cylinder welded in the center, then the rest is pretty good for 1950s special effects.The aliens in this movie are not coming to enlighten us. Nah they want to take us over and colonize the place for themselves! The mean-spirited aliens intend to invade Earth and conquer it, and the final showdown is in Washington DC. Out-of-control flying saucers wind up crashing into the Washington Monument and the dome of the Capital Building even! Plus the aliens blast everything that moves with their ray gun. Who wins? The robot-like aliens or us? Watch it and find out!

sddavis63 It's a pretty standard 50's sci-fi film made in response to the rash of UFO sightings that began in that era and that continues to this day. It's not the best movie about alien invasions of earth - not the best even from that era. That honour would probably belong to 1953's "The War Of The Worlds" or perhaps "The Day The Earth Stood Still" from 1951. This movie has all the limitations of the era - extremely primitive effects being the primary one. Neither the flying saucers nor the buildings they crashed into looked particularly convincing and there were some holes in logic and in science, but at the same time it was an entertaining enough movie that sought to whip up people's fears about the phenomenon.Here the flying saucers are the remnants of a dying civilization looking for a planet to be their new home, and seeking to take over the earth. Starting with a series of satellite launches that failed (one wonders why they kept launching 11 of them when they kept losing contact with them soon after launch) it ends with a pretty good battle between earth and the flying saucers (the title being a pretty good summary of the content of the movie; although "earth" in this case was represented almost totally by the United States.) Overall, this featured pretty good performances for a B movie of the era, and while not the best movie of its kind, it was nevertheless pretty good. (5/10)