I enjoyed this more than Earth vs the Flying Saucers because there's no Hugh Marlow and it had a creature running amok. It follows from the King Kong playbook - creature goes berserk, is captured, escapes, military called in - but lacks that film's characters. Is it so hard to create some? There's William Hopper as standard military man and the girl as standard.
The film gets extra points though for being set in Italy and have the monster going crazy among the ruins. Why not have the creature have a personality - fall in love with the girl? Or have some goal? Or give the humans some personality?
I liked Harryhausens effects and the build up was very good. But the writers didn't put flesh on the bones.
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