The Final Countdown (Widescreen Edition)
by Don Taylor
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Actor: James Farentino, Katharine Ross, Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Ron O'NealDirector: Don Taylor
Producer: Lloyd Kaufman
Producer: Peter Douglas
Producer: Richard R. St. Johns
Writer: David Ambrose
Writer: Gerry Davis
Writer: Peter Powell
Writer: Thomas Hunter
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Digital Sound, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, Surround Sound, THX, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-03-30
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Blue Underground
Movie Reviews of The Final Countdown (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: One Fantastic Video that you will watch again and again
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm the webmaster at YellowAirplane and I love this movie so much that I bought the new DVD even though I have the VHS. It is absolutely one of the best movies that I have ever seen. It has great shots of the USS Nimitz, the F-14 Tomcat, S-3 Viking, E-2 Hawkeye, A-7 Corsair (Which was the plane that I worked on in the Navy) and the A-6 Intruder. This movie takes off from the very start and keeps you on the edge all the way through to the end. If you have kids, they will not only love to watch this one, it is also a very good film for educational purposes. Do you have a Navy friend, Get this as a Gift. I'm not kidding. It's great. C. Jeff Dyrek
Summary of The Final Countdown (Widescreen Edition)
Studio: Wea-des Moines Video Release Date: 03/30/2004 Run time: 102 minutes Rating: PgWith 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
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