Reception
The film was neither a critical nor commercial success. It was also disliked by Gerry Anderson, who was not consulted on the new production. The fan response was also negative, although the film receives a rating of three-and-a-half stars out of four in the Video Movie Guide 1996.
Changes to the material from "Attack on Cloudbase" were widely criticised: following the destruction of Cloudbase from the 1968 episode, the Mysterons use their powers to reverse time, leaving Cloudbase intact and stating that on this occasion they will spare the human race in a voice-over accompanied by the image of a CGI pyramid. The implication that the attack was real, while it was only dreamt by Symphony Angel in the 1968 episode, confused fans.
In his tie-in Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons programme guide, John Peel suggests that the ending of the episode was altered to lend the film a sense of conclusion to improve on the 1960s television series, whose final episode provides no closure in terms of Earth's war with Mars. His final verdict on the film is negative: "The grafting of the new ending isn't too well done, and the whole thing looks totally faked."
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