Above-average content, with some unintentionally interesting ideas, make this one of the few SciFis from my youth I've gone back and watched again, though it would probably look better on an old black and white TV.
Some musings: - Perhaps the spaceship, mistaken by the scientist for an asteroid, first arrived in the ocean off Mexico 63 million years ago, crashed a little hard (as far as the dinosaurs were concerned) and had to come back later. - Nuclear detonations were standard in the Southwest of the 50's. Nobody seems too concerned and Kronos does us a favor by absorbing the fallout. - It's very silly "harvesting" energy when the amount needed for interstellar travel would greatly exceed what it could obtain here ... but that problem hasn't stopped hundreds of other SciFi movies.
Cross-trivia: Writer/director Brad Bird's "The Incredibles" uses "KRONOS" for his villain Syndrome's password.
Some musings: - Perhaps the spaceship, mistaken by the scientist for an asteroid, first arrived in the ocean off Mexico 63 million years ago, crashed a little hard (as far as the dinosaurs were concerned) and had to come back later. - Nuclear detonations were standard in the Southwest of the 50's. Nobody seems too concerned and Kronos does us a favor by absorbing the fallout. - It's very silly "harvesting" energy when the amount needed for interstellar travel would greatly exceed what it could obtain here ... but that problem hasn't stopped hundreds of other SciFi movies.
Cross-trivia: Writer/director Brad Bird's "The Incredibles" uses "KRONOS" for his villain Syndrome's password.