The Final Countdown

A 1980 action thriller with Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen. The only thing missing is the thrilling action. The setup is the USS Nimitz Aircraft Carrier in operation in the Pacific encounters a freak storm, thrusting it back in time to a few hours before the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor in 1941. Spend some time figuring out what is going on, spend some time deciding whether to interfere in the timeline, ... , spend some time debriefing what happens after returning (another freak storm) to 1980. I mean, this is only a bit after Jaws, and Star Wars, and not too much before Top Gun. But this was no action, no excitement, no purpose. But I did watch the whole thing...

2 stars (out of 5)