Review of The Final Countdown (1980) by Stephanie M — 10 Jul 2009
Every- now and then there's a movie on paper that you think you should like but don't. All the main actors I truly enjoy. (Kirk Douglas! Martin Sheen! Katherine Ross!) It has time travel in it, WW2 stuff and a bit of a love story. I should like this movie. Unfortunately the whole movie falls very, very flat. GREAT concept, but terribly boring execution and suffers from too much "what was the point of this movie?" This movie also suffers from a good case of "the navy let us actually shoot on a naval carrier! How COOL is THAT?! Let's get lots of military porn in there! Let's use every shot we can! Look at those jets soar!".
This is one of those few cases where I honestly think a remake would be interesting. Good concept and idea, terrible execution.
This review of The Final Countdown (1980) was written by Stephanie M on 10 Jul 2009.
The Final Countdown has generally received positive reviews.
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