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When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

I'd seen some scenes from this movie used in various TV shows but never knew where they came from until I watched this. And what a neat little film. The special effects took home the gold and the submarine was well-made. Tiny scientists inside the human body in their mission to neutralize a blood clot in the brain. And Donald Pleasence from The Great Escape and You Only Live Twice as one of the scientists. If I could pick a favorite film he's done, this would be it. I wonder if they did a lot of research in order to make this movie? A lot of the scenes really looked like they belonged in the human body. There may be some scenes where you have to suspend disbelief, but it's still a good little flick.

FANTASTIC VOYAGE is a science fiction adventure film that, in the background of some sort of Cold War, examines a medical journey into the human body. This is a well-rounded story, in which, the most attention draw miniaturization techniques and race against time through the human body.The United States and the Soviet Union have both developed technology that can miniaturize matter by shrinking individual atoms, but only for a limited amount of time, depending on how small the item is miniaturized. One scientist has figured out how to improve that process. However, his brain is damaged in an assassination attempt on him. To save his life, agent Charles Grant joins a group of scientists in an experimental mission. Through a revolutionary and as-yet-untested process, the scientists and their special motorized vehicle are miniaturized, then injected into the blood stream of a near-death scientist. They will be faced with the dangers of the human body and saboteur among them.An extremely interesting environment, surreal view of the interior of the human body and believable visual effects are the biggest advantages of this film. Of course, the probability of some scientific facts must be put aside. I would not leave room for some sort of disbelief, because this journey is, nonetheless, quite creative and comfortable.Stephen Boyd as Charles Grant is very good as a lifeguard on a duty, despite his initial surprise and disbelief. Raquel Welch as Cora Peterson is an attractive beauty in a leather suit, who assists the head doctor from time to time. An attenuated affection of Charles towards Cora is quite nice.Edmond O'Brien (General Carter), Donald Pleasence (Dr. Michaels) and Arthur Kennedy (Dr. Peter Duval) were up to the task.

Fantastic Voyage was way ahead of its time. It's hard to believe it was released half a century ago...50 years ago!! It still stands the test of time.Fantastic Voyage was directed by Richard "Tora! Tora! Tora!" Fleischer and the premise is intriguing and with current medical advances, you can see they may have been inspired by the premise of Fantastic Voyage.Stephen Boyd and Raquel Welch lead the impressive cast as they seek to save a guy by being miniaturized in a submarine to save a top scientist. Dr. Michaels (Donald "Halloween" Pleasence) is the villain at the end, and he dies from an attack of white cells. I wonder how Dr Michaels' obituary would read. What would be the cause of death reported?

The makers of this film did a good job creating an inexplicably high degree of verisimilitude which they used to paint over some absurdly impossible concepts, such as the wholesale size reduction of human beings and submarines.This film was groundbreaking in that it was big-budget, made for adults, and successful at the box-office, all of which were unusual for a scifi film in 1966. Its success helped pave the way for Planet of the Apes and 2001 A Space Odyssey.I saw this film on TV in the 1970's when I was 13. I hear it's on Netflix now.I remembered this film recently when my doctor made me get a colonoscopy, which is a medical procedure involving a tiny camera taking a fantastic voyage via one of your body's natural apertures.While the procedure was happening, I could see what the camera saw, via a TV monitor. The staff had drugged me thoroughly, so darned if I remember much.It would be an interesting experiment to take the colonoscopy monitor and switch the feed to this film for a person getting the 'scope, seeing as they drug everyone who gets it. Afterwords, interview him, see what he has to say.