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Actors: Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross, James Farentino, Ron O'Neal Director: Don Taylor Rating: Features: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, THX, Widescreen, Digital Sound, Surround Sound, Full Screen, NTSC Number of Discs: 1 Running Time: 102 minutes Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Release Date: March 30, 2004 Theatrical Release Date: August 1, 1980 Studio: Blue Underground
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With a tantalizing "what-if?" scenario and a respectable cast of Hollywood veterans, The Final Countdown plays like a grand-scale episode of The Twilight Zone. It's really no more than that, and time-travel movies have grown far more sophisticated since this popular 1980 release, but there's still some life remaining in the movie's basic premise: What if a modern-era Navy aircraft carrier--in this case the real-life nuclear-powered U.S.S. Nimitz--was caught in an anomalous storm and thrust 40 years backwards in time to the eve of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor? Will the ship's commander Kirk Douglas interfere with history? Will the visiting systems analyst Martin Sheen convince him not to? Will a rescued senator from 1941 Charles Durning play an unexpected role in the future of American politics? Veteran TV director Don Taylor doesn't do much with the ideas posed by this potentially intriguing plot; he seems more interested in satisfying aviation buffs with loving footage of F-14 "Jolly Roger" fighter jets, made possible by the Navy's generous cooperation. That makes The Final Countdown a better Navy film than a full-fledged time-travel fantasy, but there's a nice little twist at the end, and the plot holes are easy to ignore. James Cameron would've done it better, but this popcorn thriller makes an enjoyable double-bill with The Philadelphia Experiment. --Jeff Shannon
