Saturday, October 22, 2011

Final Countdown, The (1980)


No, not the Europe album. The Final Countdown (1980) is a war / sci-fi film starring Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen that will appeal to military fetishists for the military demonstrations (planes taking off, planes landing, planes flying, rescue missions, reconnaissance missions) take up about 70% of the on-screen time. The USS Nimitz encounters a bizarre storm and is time warped to the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor. The film brings up many intriguing questions about paradoxes with time travel, but unfortunately none of them are further explored or answered, they are unexplainably returned to present day, and no one learns anything.

6/10

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