It's also not one of the best acted films, but the acting is enthusiastic. Every level of campiness, eccentrism, pomposity and emotional excess is used, as well as the absence of any emotion as well. The film starts with an emotionless yet domineering Richard Kiel making his way into the laboratory of pompous scientist George Macready to manipulate him into the creation of androids. George Nader, Hugh Beaumont and Dolores Faith are the seemingly normal ones, and Barbara Nichols as Nader's girlfriend the most abnormal, a constantly chatty assistant whose intelligence remains in question and also just how she got her position and attracted Nader.

That being said, she's also the funniest, so over the top and brassy that you wonder how often she's polished. But that doesn't mean that she's right for the film, and the laughs she gets are definitely at her expense. Faith speaks, but she's so monotone and one dimensional, thus barely present. The scenes between Kiel and Macready are genuinely funny because both are extremely serious. Sets are colorful but fake looking, and the film looks rather cheap as a result. But the discussion of androids being necessary to create a master race is disturbing and timely, and even a bit before its time. Too bad that the script really stinks.

An alien (Dr. Kolos, Richard Kiel) is transported to Earth to prepare for an invasion by perfecting human duplication, with which an unlimited supply of obedient slaves and soldiers could be created. Written by the usually imaginative Alfred C. Pierce, the plot is a throwback to the numerous 'alien duplicate' films of the 50s and early 60s with a minor plot twist before the otherwise cheap and predictable ending. The towering Kiel is amusingly robotic as the alien who becomes infatuated with Lisa, Delores Faith's short and extremely unconvincing blind girl, 'Leave It to Beaver's Hugh Beaumont shows up as a cop while 'Robot Monster's George Nader is the stalwart secret-agent hero Glenn Martin, complete with a superfluous, brassy New Yawker girlfriend (Barbara Nichols). The story doesn't make a lot of sense, especially the inconsistent duplication process, which seems to result in super-strong, bullet-proof yet oddly fragile mannequins. Other than an early scene of Kolos being sent to Earth via "teletrasporter" (a process remarkably similar to the transporters in 'Star Trek', which debuted more than a year after this film came out), the special effects are cheap and laughable (especially the climatic "pulse laser beam"). Pierce's low-budget science-fiction films are usually better than they should be (such as 1966's 'Cyborg 2087') but this one isn't, and beyond an undeniable appeal to camp and/or genre fans (primarily due to the cast) has little to offer to justify sitting through 80 minutes of boring bargain-basement 'spy-fi'.

This movie actually came off as better to me than most people here think. It might be because there is this one line that's actually really clever. A character says, "Say something" and the guy literally says, "Something". It was nice to have a recognizable actor, Richard Kiel here. The film is still for the most part bad. The bad special effects are particularly noticeable. It really is funny to see these androids lose their body parts and see their faces literally fall apart. It managed to entertain me like that.

Everyone acts like a robot in this. It ends up making more sense than most examples. It's still fairly poorly acted, particularly with how ALL the characters/actors do that. It probably could have been shorter too. When there's not much plot going on, it always drags on. This movie is about an alien who tries to replace people on Earth. There's not much motivation, so it's still skippable. *1/2