Best movie of this year hands down!

You won't be disappointed!

Touches You

Strong and Moving!

OK, admittedly, I have not read the book. I am sure it is a beloved sci-fi classic. This movie is none of the above. I accidentally selected this on my streaming service, thinking it was one of the Toulon Full Moon puppet-master series. I saw some of the cast and decided maybe it was worth a look. It was not. Hard to follow, the actors all seemed to be in a daze. Walking around muttering pointless dialogue. Even the revered Donald Sutherland came off as a stiff. The production values were very low budget, I almost laughed at the first appearance of the "alien". No tension, drama, excitement involved. Julie Warner spent the first part of the movie frustrated that men would not ogle her boobs. I am not making this up. I would hope that this film is a very bad adaptation of the book. I had to turn it off about 30 minutes in. AVOID IF POSSIBLE.

This movie could have been a good movie, it had some potential: the presence of Donald Sutherland, Will Patton and the sexy Julie Warner. There are a few good scenes but, overall, the movie is a failure. If you have some cinematic culture, not too much, you're gonna give me right. See it and you'll convince yourself if I'm right or not.

It looks like a UFO has landed in a small Iowa farm town. A top-secret US government investigative team from the "Office of Scientific Central Intelligence" goes out to investigate. The three stars are: limping leader Donald Sutherland (as Andrew Nivens), his handsome son and partner Eric Thal (as Sam Nivens) and sexy alien biologist Julie Warner (as Mary Sefton). They are about to conclude the whole thing was a teenagers' hoax, but Ms. Warner realizes aliens have landed. The reason, according to Warner, is that no males on the scene have noticed her arousing figure or tried to look down her unbuttoned blouse. You can almost hear her say, "Don't look at that alien spaceship, dammit, look down my shirt!"...Now, these aliens attach themselves to your back (your spinal column, specifically) and they multiply quickly. The way to see if someone has been "infected" is to order the person to, "Take off your shirt!" Since this trick works, we're left wondering why most people in the cast are allowed to keep their backs covered. Most viewers would not protest Warner and Mr. Thal acting without their shirts (Thal goes without pants, too). If you don't mind wondering about plot confusions and contrivances like that, you could do worse than Stuart Orme's vision of Robert A. Heinlein's science-fiction novel. Thal and Warner are an attractive couple and Mr. Sutherland is a classic performer who can improve movies by simply being there.****** The Puppet Masters (10/21/94) Stuart Orme ~ Eric Thal, Julie Warner, Donald Sutherland, Keith David

My problem with this movie is (1) Robert Heinlein is my favourite science fiction writer, bar none; (2) The book on which this movie is based is one of his more forgettable works; and (3) The film is a decent effort, but it's a low-budget project and pretty uninspired. I've waited a lifetime for Heinlein's better writing to make it to the screen, and unfortunately, it hasn't happened. There is nothing "wrong" with this movie, but almost any other Heinlein novel or story would have been better starting material. Better choices for source material might have included Stranger in a Strange Land (best known work, but not best novel), and any of the so-called Boy Scout series from the 50s: Have Spacesuit Will Travel, Farmer in the Sky, Between Planets, Red Planet, and many, many more.