With Martin Sheen's official spectator from the government, Mr. This dilemma is compounded further when they are compelled to rescue the survivors of a yacht that enemy Zeros have blown to bits - survivors whom the text books say should have disappeared in the eve of the attack. With the shocking discovery that are all that stands between the Japanese fleet and the unsuspecting naval base at Pearl Harbor, Yelland and his trusty command team - including James Farentino and Ron O'Neal - must wrestle with the consequences of thwarting the Japs and forever altering the course of history. This phenomena - a howling, demonic portal of sub-Spielbergian light and sound - latches onto the ship even though they attempt to outrun it and catapults them back to a time when, with all the might and knowledge at their disposal, they could probably rule the world. Voyaging off for routine exercises in the Pacific, the Nimitz, under the command of Kirk Douglas as Captain Yelland, pretty soon encounters the type of unexplainable phenomena that the celebrated - and notorious - Bermuda Triangle usually likes to lay claim to. basically, what would happen if primitive weaponry and tactics were pitched against an enemy vastly superior in power and technology. Taking the US Navy's then-premier icon of massive fire-power, the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (now a floating museum), and hurling it, via a mysterious and frightening electrical storm that comes from seemingly out of nowhere, back in time to a point just before the Japanese fleet attacks Pearl Harbor in 1941, is merely the plot device that allows the makers - so in love with American military might that their film became the single greatest ad campaign for the US Navy until a certain Tom Cruise climbed into the cockpit of an F-16 with “the need, the need for speed” in Top Gun - to ponder on the type of question that war-gamers and academic strategists constantly love to address. the Amazing Stories and Astounding Science Fiction illustrated anthologies that became so popular, and such a splendid seedbed for the genre as it moved from the written page and into the movies. ?”Īlmost certainly inspired by the allegedly true case of the USS Philadelphia being rendered not only invisible but relocated in time and space during scientific experiments back in the seventies - and the subject of numerous books, TV shows and a film starring Michael Pare - Don Taylor's The Final Countdown (1980) is one of those tremendously loopy “what if” dramas that were incredibly rife in the pulp sci-fi magazines of the silver age.
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