Protraph Lack of good storyline.

ChanBot i must have seen a different film!!

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Johnny Aitch Having watched the first series when I was about 8 I remember as a 10 year old being so excited by the previews for series 2 showing scenes from The Metamorph.It didn't disappoint. I can still remember lying on the hearth rug to watch it.Both seasons are absolutely brilliant. I am 51 now and I still watch them occasionally and find myself determined to stop after watching 2-3 episodes only to go on and watch 4,5,6 or more..drives my wife crazy. I'm 10 years old again when I watch them and somehow can still watch them through a 10 years olds eyes.The effects still stand up, as do the stories, the acting is still right up there, sometimes wonky scripts but that's part of its charm.I'm not concerned with the flaws in the science..it is science fiction after all and as I said, I'm watching them through the eyes of a ten year old.Simply brilliant!!!!

George Taylor I've been a fan of Gerry Anderson for many years. And while I didn't appreciate the subtleties of UFO until I was an adult, Space:1999 was just a bad show from beginning to end. I blame the American end for this. Had the Anderson's retained full control as they did previously, it might have been watchable. The first season has bland, overthought stories (although the one with Christopher Lee is the best of the series), while the second put all logic aside for action and making Maya the main character, her shape-shifting abilities nearly always saving the day. While Landau and Bain are decent actors, they both seemed to phone in their performances. This show is just all SFX, and very rarely story.

Peter Plasticon with it's plastic garden furniture chairs and it's wooden actors, space 1999 falls on it's arse cos of the characters, what characters?, and it looks 70s and it's supposed to be one of the most expensive shows ever made on British television at the point it was made! It's saving grace is the unlikely guest actors, you know like Peter Bowles all in black and big shoulders throwing people around who need a darn good shake! I didn't watch the second series cos of Maya's shape changing and no Barry Morse whose hair i liked, not as much fun as UFO in my opinion. I've got to do ten lines on this, it's like a punishment or something, I've nothing more to add OK, twitter doesn't give you enough and this too much

Caps Fan The UK critic Leslie Halliwell called this "'Star Trek' in all but name" and it's not hard to see why. As with the iconic 60s show, the rank or function of the various characters is indicated by the color of part of their clothing and much of the action takes place in a room dominated by a large screen. The lead characters are the sturdy commander, a scientist, the doctor, and a manly type, just as before. By 1975, "Star Trek" was long gone from our screens, except in syndication, and no quality sci-fi show had yet taken its place on TV. The time must have seemed propitious for another show of the kind.So ITC came up with this. In 1999, as portrayed in the show, the moon is being used as a dump for the waste generated by the nuclear power stations that keep Earth going. Problems arise, resulting in the biggest of those dumps exploding in such a way that the moon is sent flying off into deep space. Along for the ride are 300 or so people on Moonbase Alpha who must now fend for themselves against anything that space throws at them.I am told that such an explosion would shatter the moon rather than send it out of orbit, but I think I could swallow that goof if it were the only one and the show were otherwise acceptable. Unfortunately, there are so many things wrong with this that it's hard to know where to start. Sticking with the physics for a moment, the moon is shown moving between solar systems and even galaxies in a matter of days. OK, the USS Enterprise did this, but at least it had engines. How does the moon manage it?Some of the individual episodes work (my personal favorite is "War Games", where Alpha is seemingly devastated by an alien attack), but most don't, having resort to things like séances and crew members being taken over by the spirits of stars or long dead ancestors! Most episodes involve Alphans being killed, yet the base never seems short on people, although replacements are impossible to come by. And, just as with Star Trek's red shirts (the security personnel whose main role was to act as cannon fodder – four of them bite the dust in the episode "The Apple"), it is the purple-sleeved security guards who make up a disproportionate share of the victims.Meanwhile, the attempt to recreate the charming interplay between Star Trek's main characters falls flat on its face, a fact all the more remarkable when you consider that two of the leads , Martin Landau (Commander Koenig) and Barbara Bain (Doctor Russell), were married to each other at the time the show was made. Meanwhile, the "scientist" (Victor Bergman, played by Barry Morse) rarely seems to know anything and is reduced to spouting generalities. Only the "manly type", pilot Alan Carter, played by the ever reliable Nick Tate, gets it more or less right.Perhaps the worst mistake of all was the revamp carried out between seasons 1 and 2. Moonbase Alpha is scarcely recognizable as the same place. Some of the characters we know from the first season - Victor Bergman is one - have gone, without our being told why, while new ones appear with equally little attempt at explanation. The episodes, however, remain just as silly. Did nobody look at the title of "The Rules of Luton" and realize it just wouldn't work?On the plus side, the sets and model work are mostly good as is the music. Some of the guest appearances are striking too, notably that of Jeremy Kemp in the better-than-average episode "Voyager's Return". Despite everything, I have an odd affection for the show, especially the first season. But someone once said that it takes good science fact to make good science fiction. By breaking that, and other, rules way too often, this effort proves that sage individual right.Rating: 5/10