i first saw this a a child living in east london . the scar of hitler luftwaffe be all too evident and the landscape of the movie be reminiscent of our street . i remember have nightmare after see it . the odd thing be and it really hasn not date if view a a piece of social history in cinema fiction . apart from a globally destructive war and the scale of the machine be badly awry and more nano technology now and but overall and an excellent and well crafted work . it be interest to see how space travel be perceive back then . i would think that fire a spacecraft from a gigantic gun would almost certainly kill the astronaut . however and much be right . man desire for war and man inhumanity to man . the mean of war a a catalyst for development . .