The Final Countdown (1980)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.6/10   

Director:

Don Taylor

Writers:

Thomas Hunter (story) &
Peter Powell (story) ...

Release Date:

1 agosto 1980 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Adventure | Sci-Fi | War

Frase comercial:

"...This is the USS Nimitz. Where The Hell Are We...?" - Trapped inside the boundaries of time and space... 102 aircraft... 6,000 men... all missing.

Plot:

A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour.

Plot Keywords:

Predestinination | Advanced Technology | Jap Zero | Aerial Refueling | Playing God

Awards:

1 win & 2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A classic science fiction time travel paradox flick.

Cast

Kirk Douglas	...	Capt. Matthew Yelland
Martin Sheen	...	Warren Lasky
Katharine Ross	...	Laurel Scott
James Farentino	...	Wing Commander Richard T. Owens / Mr Richard Tideman
Ron O'Neal	...	Cmdr. Dan Thurman
Charles Durning	...	Sen. Samuel Chapman
Victor Mohica	...	Black Cloud
James C. Lawrence	...	Lt. Perry
Soon-Tek Oh	...	Simura, Captured Japanese Pilot (as Soon-Teck Oh)
Joe Lowry	...	Cmdr. Damon
Alvin Ing	...	Kajima
Mark Thomas	...	Marine Cpl. Kullman
Harold Bergman	...	Bellman
Dan Fitzgerald	...	Navy Doctor
Lloyd Kaufman	...	Lt. Cmdr. Kaufman

También conocida como:

U.S.S. Nimitz: Lost in the Pacific (Europe: English title) (DVD box title)
Final de la cuenta atrás, El (Spain) [es]

Duración:

103 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

English | Japanese

Color:

Color (TVC)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby

Clasificación:

Australia:PG | Finland:K-12 | Norway:12 (re-rating) (1982) (cut) | Norway:15 (DVD rating) | Norway:16 (original rating) | Sweden:15 | UK:PG | USA:PG | West Germany:12 | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Naval Air Station, Key West, Florida Keys, Florida, USA

Company:

Bryna Productions

Trivialidades:

First theatrical trailer from the Blue Underground DVD includes more dialogue between Yelland and Lasky about the consequences of turning back the planes.

Goofs:

Errors in geography: At the beginning of the movie, a jet, and then the helicopter carrying Mr. Lasky take off from "Pearl Harbor Naval Air Station." Pearl Harbor was strictly a ship base. The nearest Naval Air Station was Barber's Point, approximately 30 miles away.

Quotes:

[first lines]
F-14 Pilot: [voice over radio] Pearl Tower, Tomcat two-zero-zero. requesting clearance for departure runway zero-nine. Over.
Pearl Harbor Tower: [voice over radio] Two-zero-zero, Pearl Harbor Tower. You are cleared runway oh-niner. Winds zero-four-five at eight. SH-three approaching from the right. Have a nice day.

Movie Connections:

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A classic science fiction time travel paradox flick.

This is a really great fun film that deals with some of the aspects of time travel into the past. If one does anything to alter the past while there, what will be the effects on the future you knew? No hint of an explanation is give as to what could have caused the, I guess you could call it, 'time storm.' But the film does have has some very interesting twists and a cool ending. Not only that, but the flight sequences of the F-15s and the dogfights between them and Mitsubishi Zeros are just plain fun (from a modern day American perspective). Someone said that they are the best shots of an F-15 in action prior to Top Gun. Ever since I was a youngster, I wondered what would happen if you could transport a battleship or aircraft carrier back to say, the Revolutionary War era. Final Countdown comes about as close to playing with that idea as I expect to see.