Taking a break from his giant monster movies, Ishiro Honda here offers us an end-of-the-world outer space tale in which Earth is menaced by a giant planet seemingly on a collision course with our own. It's a slow moving and rather ponderous tale which feels like a precursor to ARMAGEDDON at times. Takashi Shimura is a welcome presence in support, but the whole thing is so talky that it takes a very long time to get anywhere, and only the extended climax - involving the usual destruction and giant monster mayhem - livens things up to a degree.
Review of Gorath
