Le Voyageur du temps

The best thing about this film is its poster slyly touting a sci-fi wonder like no other. But the truth is very far from that. In 1960 Ulmer worked as in an assembly line, he would make a film in a couple of days, simultaneously with another one, and the results are evident. The exteriors are represented by a few minutes of shots of an airport and some drab demolition site, the rest is one rear projection and cheap sets with pseudo-sci-fi architecture, where the most expensive thing had to be the swimming pool. The chatty plot is very dull and uninteresting, and only a few seconds of mutant attack ten minutes before the end will snap you out of a light slumber. The result, unfortunately, is definitely not so stupid to at least entertain you at the expense of the creators, it's just incredibly boring. (13/12/2012)