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...
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The Final Countdown
Trapped outside the boundaries of time and space... 102 aircraft... 6,000 men... all missing.
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.
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Kirk DouglasCapt. Matthew Yelland
Martin SheenWarren Lasky
Katharine RossLaurel Scott
James FarentinoWing Commander Richard T. Owens
Ron O'NealCommander Dan Thurman
Charles DurningSenator Samuel Chapman
Victor MohicaBlack Cloud
James ColemanLt. Perry
Soon-Tek OhSimura
Alvin IngLt. Kajima
Lloyd KaufmanLCdr. Kaufman
Dan FitzgeraldNavy Doctor
Peter DouglasQuartermaster
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