The Final Countdown

Watch: The Final Countdown

8/1/19801h 43m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Trapped outside the boundaries of time and space... 102 aircraft... 6,000 men... all missing. ~

Overview:

During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strange vortex-like storm, throwing the ship back in time to 1941—mere hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Director:

Don Taylor

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$12,000,000.00

Revenue:

$16,647,800.00

Key words:

airplane
world war ii
time travel
pearl harbor
pacific war
naval warfare
1940s
1980s
japanese
uss nimitz

Cast

Kirk Douglas

~ as ~

Capt. Matthew Yelland

Martin Sheen

~ as ~

Warren Lasky

Katharine Ross

~ as ~

Laurel Scott

James Farentino

~ as ~

Wing Commander Richard T. Owens

Ron O'Neal

~ as ~

Commander Dan Thurman

Charles Durning

~ as ~

Senator Samuel Chapman

Victor Mohica

~ as ~

Black Cloud

James Coleman

~ as ~

Lt. Perry

Soon-Tek Oh

~ as ~

Simura

Alvin Ing

~ as ~

Lt. Kajima

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Reviews (1)

JPV852
Written 4 year(s) ago
8
Pretty fun Twilight Zone-esque movie that was entertaining throughout. Always like the ideas of alternate history and while this doesn't quite change history in the end (and shouldn't given it was Pearl Harbor, not to mention when this movie was released, survivors were only in their early/mid 60s), still was a good time. On the downside, the actual travel through the portal was cheesy and cheap even for 1979/80. 3.75/5

As a side, interesting that only 7 years later, the sons of Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen will star in Wall Street...