独眼巨人博士

&quotDr. Cyclops&quot is known as one of the better &quotearly sci-fi&quot films, made in &#3939 and released in 1940. (It is also in color.) But while the story has potential and there are some good moments, this is a very confused film. The plot is simple - crazy mad scientist on some remote island can shrink animals, and wants to try it on humans. He manages this on a scientific team that came to check things out. They get angry, and the crazy scientist eventually gets really angry because his new shrunken subjects won&#39t cooperate. The thing is, the film doesn&#39t seem to know if it wants to be a thriller, or a goofy movie. Dr. Cyclops (never called that but referenced to a Cyclops after one lens in his glasses breaks) looks cool in his &quot30&#39s style sci-fi helmet&quot as he performs experiments and can be chilling at times. But there is so much &quotDisney-style goofy music&quot going on that it is hard to take anything seriously. The music belongs in a family comedy for the most part, and is played when the shrunken people do things like try to survive, and creep around the floor. Add that a few of them have pretty gruesome deaths and that just adds to the confusing atmosphere. The FX aren&#39t so bad but nothing special. The giant sets built are pretty impressive though. There is a scene where little fires are tossed at a real crocodile&#39s head which probably made animal activists angry. It also takes a long time for anything to really happen. This movie could have been done in a nice tight half-hour. Good for a viewing, but you probably won&#39t watch again. The performance of the guy who plays Dr. Cyclops is definitely the main attraction.