senator (played Charles Durning) who could have become president had history not recorded him having disappeared just before the Pearl Harbor attack. The boat’s main passenger turns out to be a U.S. The captain’s assessments hit a bit of a wrinkle when a fighter patrol encounters a couple of Japanese scout planes firing on a yacht in order to wipe out any potential witnesses. James Farentino plays the ship’s air wing commander, who also happens to be an amateur historian and expert on the Pearl Harbor attack. The main debate is between the ship’s captain, played by Kirk Douglas, who must decide what the crew’s duty is despite being displaced by time, and a civilian observer played by Martin Sheen, who wonders if it’s possible to change history, and if so, what the ramifications would be. The primary fun in the film is watching the characters try to grasp the implications of the premise. The crew investigates their situation, figures out what happened, and decides that no matter the time, their duty is to defend the United States, so they prepare to ambush the Japanese fleet with modern jet fighters before it can attack Pearl Harbor. In essence, the aircraft carrier Nimitz, while engaged in training exercises, encounters a rift in space-time that sends it back to 1941. Which is all a way of saying the central hook of the story still holds up as an intriguing plot twist more than 40 years later.ĭespite a plot involving time travel and naval warfare, The Final Countdown really isn’t that complicated of a movie. But the foundational shift from analog to digital makes the 1980s to today feel much closer than the 1940s feels to the ’80s. Ronald Reagan going back in time from now to 1982, when Reagan was actually president. To put the time gap into perspective, it would be the temporal equivalent of a newer carrier such as the U.S.S. In fact, the aircraft carrier at the center of the story, the U.S.S.
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While modern in this scenario refers to 1980, when the movie first came out, and military tech has evolved a bit since then, those advancements aren’t as much of a radical change as the difference between pre-World War II hardware and what was available during filming. aircraft carrier was available to defend Pearl Harbor against the Japanese fleet? The premise of The Final Countdown teases an irresistible bit of speculative fiction: What if a single modern U.S.
Stars Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, James Farentino, Katherine Ross, Charles Durning, Ron O’Neal.
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