Martin Sheen has something of an extraneous role, given that he doesn't actually do anything other than act as the audience's eyes and ears. Douglas is one of those old-time guys who seems great in any part, and I couldn't fault him here. The cast is pretty good, a mix of star names and character actors.
THE FINAL COUNTDOWN MOVIE MOVIE
For some, this might be anticlimatic, and if you're looking for a pure modern-vs-historical war movie I'd go with G.I. Any action he takes is likely to have drastic consequences - leading to a nail-biting climax that poses the question "what if?". The crux of the film is the captain's moral dilemma as he has to choose whether to become involved in WW2 or not. Aside from plenty of scenes of planes flying around and landing on the ship (via some cool elastic technology), this shows no battle scenes, so if you're looking for that kind of excitement I'd recommend going elsewhere. I was looking forward to see what this US-centric twist would add to the story, and I wasn't disappointed.įor a start, this isn't an action film. SAMURAI, with Sonny Chiba and his troops transported back to samurai times.
Intelligent science fiction films have a tendency to be few and far between - which is why it's refreshing to watch this thought-provoking time-slip drama which sees a naval warship from the '80s transported back in time to the day before the attack on Pearl Harbour! The film's conception was clearly inspired by one of my favourite movies - the Japanese classic G.I. Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 6 / 10 Intelligent addition to the sub-genre of time travel films I won't say what happens to the Nimitz and its crew, but Martin Sheen gets the biggest surprise of all at the very end of the film. You'll be scratching your head for days after seeing The Final Countdown. He speaks only Japanese in the film and he manages to invoke both menace and fright in his performance of a man, also not knowing what's happening but knowing he's with the American enemy. My favorite in the film however is Soon Teck Oh. Other good performances in the film besides those mentioned are James Farentino as the air group commander and amateur historian and Ron O'Neal as the Executive officer of the Nimitz. Would you kill Adolph Hitler or Joseph Stalin as a child if you got the chance? Should the Nimitz with the firepower it has go wreak some havoc on the Japanese fleet before they strike? The Final Countdown is a good science fiction film that raises some interesting conundrum like questions. and they also rescue the pilot of one of the Japanese zeroes that sunk the cabin cruiser, Soon Teck Oh. Complicating things even further the Nimitz rescues United States Senator Charles Durning and his girl Friday Katharine Ross who are the only survivors of a cabin cruiser that got shot up by Japanese planes. What to do? The mind boggles with the possibilities. Nimitz and crew are transported back in time, precisely to December 6, 1941. Once out of port they encounter a storm unlike any other in history and though they're slow to comprehend it, the U.S.S.
He's the captain of the U.S.S Nimitz, finest nuclear powered aircraft carrier in the fleet and on this cruise they've got a VIP aboard, Martin Sheen who works for a mysterious Howard Hughes hermit like defense contractor named Tideman. Kirk Douglas heads the cast in his own Bryna films production of The Final Countdown. All that was needed was the TARDIS and one of the Doctors Who to provide an explanation for what was going on. Only a Timelord might know the answer to that and The Final Countdown bears no small resemblance to a big budget version of a Doctor Who episode. Reviewed by bkoganbing 6 / 10 Could We Or Should We Change History? Will these actions create a time paradox? Matthew Yelland is planning to attack the Japanese. But Lasky soon learns the senator had disappeared on that day and Capt. When the two Japanese Zeros attack the motorboat of Senator Samuel Chapman, the crew of the Nimitz rescues the senator and his assistant Laurel Scott. Out of the blue, the vessel faces a weird storm and they find they have traveled back in time to the eve of the attack of Pearl Harbor on 06 December 1941. Lasky learns that Commander Air Group (CAG) Richard T. Matthew Yelland as an observer of the routines. In 1980, an assistant in the Department of Defense, Warren Lasky, is assigned by his mysterious chief Richard Tideman to visit the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz commanded by Capt.