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Sunday, May 18, 2008

THE FINAL COUNTDOWN (1980)

Time-travel hokum about a modern day aircraft carrier mysteriously zapped back to Dec. 6, 1941. Can it change history? Should it? The real time-travel event is this dunderheaded production, lumbering along as if it had been made in the late-50s/early-60s. Hard to believe Martin Sheen was shooting APOCALYPSE NOW the year before this antediluvian artefact. Don Taylor ’s flat-footed megging doesn’t help, nor does Maurice Binder ’s psychedelic F/X, but everything takes a backseat to John Scott ’s cornpone musical score and Kirk Douglas ’s hair styling. And a surprise tag ending to leave one speechless, though not with admiration.

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