The Final Countdown

So was is just me who thought that Doctor Emmit Brown brought to the forefront the possible consequences of messing with the space time continuum? Not the case at all. The Final Countdown was released 5 years prior to Back to the Future, yet until yesternight I had never even heard of it. It very well presented a plot that not only makes you think about what is happening and how you would react to the same situation if faced with it, but it doesn't exit the brain anytime soon after the final credits roll. I love watching actors I didn't grow up with, but as an adult I am fully aware of the legacies they left behind. Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen are the main peeps in this extremely original (for the times) time travel adventure, where the consequences could alter the very existence of everyone involved. So, Laskey (Sheen) is aboard USS NIMITZ to observe the actions of the crew and captain and give suggestions on any way they could improve how they do things and make decisions. The Captain of the aircraft carrier is played by Kirk Douglas. Everything is very routine until an unusual storm presents what turns out to be a wormhole to the past. Forty years in the past to be exact. 1 day before the attack on Pearl Harbor to be even more precise. The brilliant thing about the time travel is no one on board is the wiser to what has just happened to them. Basically the ocean hasn't had many improvements or noticeable changes in the past forty years. It wasn't until they sent out some surveillance aircraft that the pieces began to fall. Other than Douglas and Sheen, there really was only one other major character. Cmdr. Owens. He is some what of a historian and is currently finishing his manuscript about the attack on Pearl and the War to follow. His research compared with pictures taken the day of the portal experience are IIIDENTICAL (llll) (llll). <-- Those are hands. AP knows why.) At this point the fact remains that those who need to know what is happening do know, but soon those people's jobs become increasing tough>>Decision Wise that is. They are wrestling with the question of what to do. They can use the forty years of advanced technology and destroy the Japanese fleet before the attack or let history happen as it is suppose to. The arguments between Lasky, the Captain, and Owens are absolutely mind boggling. Lasky has the most compelling argument for leaving well enough alone, but Owens is conflicted. He kind of wants the best of both, but contradicts himself in some of his though processes. The battle scenes in the air are nothing short of superbly awesomely fantastically brilliant. F-14's going up against 1941 Japanese propeller fighter planes. It's insane to think about the way that fight would go. At one point A-Bomb looks at me and states what he thinks the American pilots are saying, "Eesh, I've never gone this slow before." Funny stuff. What would you do? If the year was 1980 and Pearl took place 40 years earlier like the history books taught you, would you change the outcome if you could? This is the conversation we've been continuing to have over the last 20 hours or so. It's a tough one. I am disturbed I thought The Final Countdown was nothing but a righteous song by the band Europe, which played on a loop on my Rocky IV tape of the soundtrack. I must own this movie and make my children understand how important a decision like this would be. There are so many other things that make this film so right, but I really want any of you who haven't seen it to get a copy any way you can. The blu ray delivered through netflix was actually a very superior quality picture.

NBM rates The Final Countdown - A Work of Cinematic Art

Buy It!!!