The Mysterians
In a retrospective on Soviet science fiction film, British director Alex Cox compared "First Spaceship on Venus" to the Japanese film "The Mysterians", but called the former "more complex and morally ambiguous". Cox also remarked that "Silent Star's images of melted cities and crystallised forests, overhung by swirling clouds of gas, are masterpieces of production design. The scene in which three cosmonauts are menaced halfway up a miniature Tower of Babel by an encroaching sea of sludge may not entirely convince, but it is still a heck of a thing to see".