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starring: Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross directed by: Don Taylor

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Average Rating: Rating: - The Final Countdown - Sci-Fi Story Telling at it's BEST This film is well written, has an all star cast and has wonderful photography. Filmed well before Top Gun, The Final Countdown has great areial combat/flight scenes and shows the awesome capabilites of the navy's modern nuclear aircraft carriers and the stressful environment that all aboard have to live with every day. Kirk Douglass and Marten Sheen show why they were "A" list actors when this film was made. Both gave excellent performances. The script was well written with the exploration of the ships crew trying to deal with a potential paradox that would effect every person on the planet. Great acting a good story and super photography of aircraft carrier and flight operations. If you like these features, you will love this movie. Rating: - A film that has everything "The Final Countdown" is one of my all-time favorite films, because it has just about everything I like: military hardware, heroism, and history -- with a delicious helping of sci-fi fantasy. Off the coast of Hawaii, the modern day USS Nimitz encounters a bizarre storm, which is actually a portal through time. The crew gradually becomes convinced that they have emerged in 1941 just prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor -- and that they have the futuristic firepower to stop it. But can history really be changed? Initially, it seems likely! In the highlight scene of the film, F-14 Tomcats go to the rescue of a yacht under attack by Zeros. Survivors, a suspicious Congressman and his assistant, as well as an incredulous Japanese pilot, are brought on board the spectacularly anachronistic aircraft carrier. From there, the mission to change history begins to go awry as paradox-producing events occur. Nonetheless, the Nimitz never falters. And you really anticipate, even as the time portal begins to close, that her guns and aircraft will engage the oncoming enemy. "The Final Countdown" is a wonderful fantasy, very realistically enacted. For a time-travel epic, I like the way all the "loose ends" are neatly tied up. History is preserved, with a sensitive, and I must say, emotional, tribute to the heroes of Pearl Harbor. Rating: - A Navy man's opinion The Final Countdown is one, if not the best movie of its type that I have ever seen. As a former U.S. Navy sailor I was impressed by the realism. Most of the action takes place aboard an aircraft carrier and having been at sea on an aircraft carrier I can tell you that not only are the sights right, but the sound are right, what you hear in the background is very real. The flying scenes were so good as to be hard to believe, and the whole concept of the story grabs the immagination like nothing else can. The concept of a fully armed modern aircraft carrier dropping out of time into the ocean just off of Hawaii, just before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is mind boggling and when you throw in questions like; "can we attack first, because we know from history (that will be changed) that the Japanese are going to attack?" "and if we do, will we have started the war?" "Who has authority over this future aircraft carrier, is it the 1941 president?" Immagine an arial dogfight between an Japanese Zero and a Tomcat... you get see one. Everything about The Final Countdown is well done and above and beyond expectations. If you enjoy military hardware movies, enjoy a touch of science fiction, and like watching fighter jets, and you plain just like a good story, this movie is a must see. If you have seen it, as I have, many times, you will want it for your library.

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