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Like every Michael Bay movie, and the previous Transformers movies especially, this one is no exception: god awful. Anyone over the age of 14 who claims to like this movie is either afflicted with some kind of mental disorder or just has taste in their big fat can.

The second man to walk on the Moon - yes, the real Buzz Aldrin! - actually appears in this movie and oh how sad and embarrassing it is to see him there. And as for John Malkovich ... surely he can't need money that badly, can he?? So depressing ...

Rather than see this movie just punch yourself in the face. At least then you'll feel some genuine human emotion and will save yourself two and a half precious hours in your life.

This is what you get when you give the guy who made a few kid's cartoon movies $200 + million to make a sci-fi adventure based on a 100 year pulp series ... a disaster. You can get away with little to no character development, weak plots and reliance on CGI when you're making films for children, but when you're attempting to entertain adults it won't work. Add to that, terrible ham acting by its lead and key supporting players as well as loud, bombastic music with a running time of 2 hours, it's no wonder this movie failed so miserably at the box office. And deservedly so. People who think movie is another other than garbage are the kind of people who don't like foreign films because they don't like reading subtitles and hate old movies because they're in black and white. What I'm saying is, in a nutshell, the John Carters of this world are movies for dummies.

First of all, this poster for this movie is incredible. One of my all time favorites. This movie was really hard to find until recently (just came out on blu-ray April 2012) so years ago I found an old paperback of the Jack Finney novel and read it. Loved the story. Then, finally, I was able to see the movie ... disappointing. My biggest complaint is the direction: absolutely flaccid, dull and without any creativity. Not surprisingly the director, Jack Donohue, was a hack TV director almost his entire career and only directed a handful of movies - none of them good. And so Assault on a Queen feels soooo slow when it really should be fast paced and have high energy. The great Rod Serling wrote the script from a fun novel, so I'm not going to blame the writing. And the acting was fine too. The only other problem was the music: poorly used and sparse and never seemed appropriate for the scene. I suppose I can blame the director for this too since he'd be the one overseeing where it was used.

Anyway, worth watching for fans of 60s heist movies. I like it, but wish it were better.