A great piece of science fiction and probably the best example of a Christ figure put to film. Robert Wise's (The Sound of Music) movie about an alien who arrives at Earth to deliver the ultimatum from the rest of the universe "stop the international bickering or we will destroy you all" has aged well. Sure, there are some elements that feel a tad dated but as a whole the story still works and will most likely satisfy most audiences, provided they can work their way past the moral equivalence the film makes between Communist Russia and the United States.


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