The Final Countdown (Widescreen Edition)

The Final Countdown (Widescreen Edition)
by Don Taylor

The Final Countdown (Widescreen Edition)
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Actor: James Farentino, Katharine Ross, Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Ron O'Neal
Director: 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, 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: The Final Countdown (Blu-ray)
Summary: 5 Stars

This is a great "what if" scifi classic. I first saw this movie in the early 80's on cable and then on TV and I had a video tape, I always enjoyed it. Some of the effects may be a little eightyish (way before Dreamworks and Pixar) but who cares? It's the idea and your imagination that counts. Put all that together with Blu-ray, HD, and a big screen, and it's great. Like the man said, "The Nimitz back in 1941, just think of the possibilities!"

Summary of The Final Countdown (Widescreen Edition)

Studio: Wea-des Moines Video Release Date: 03/30/2004 Run time: 102 minutes Rating: Pg
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

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