Always admired the model contraptions on Gerry & Sylvia Anderson shows, but never keen on the 'super marionation' This movie is their first 'human' acting endeavor, and packed with contraptions and gizmo's galore. As a youngster, I marveled at the movie. But on recent viewing, it's so flawed it's funny. Much of the acting is so over the top, especially Herbert Lom. Analyzing the planet with nothing more than a Polaroid picture printout and a report saying it's got air and water at least. And the whole waste of time with the 'spy' in the base. All these gizmo's for taking pictures of documents, developing them, and projecting them - all INSTALLED in his room! You'd think that would be a give away to staff and maintenance at the base why a scientist would have a 'Eye Spy Developing Lab Drawer' installed in his room, and what's with the mini film rolls and developing solution arriving from Russia all the time? LOL And as neat as the models all look, just how impractical they'd be in reality. I don't like to nit-pick movies ever, as many like to point out inaccuracies, loop holes, goofs, and un-plausibility. But this is so chock full of them all, it's truly hard not to laugh! Great fun for kids still. But makes Robinson Caruso On Mars even better than 2001: A Space Odyssey! LOL.
