"Oh my god!" I thought, "Which should I watch, the brilliant gangster flick, or this potentially godly movie?
Thankfully, I choose to watch the last 15 minutes of Sopranos before changing the channel to The Final Countdown [or what ever it was called]. This was a good move, I would later realise.
The first thing that struck me was the terrible acting. The movie was set aboard the Nimitz, which was cool, as I feared they would send the Enterprise back into the past, which would have had ... interesting consequences if they were to meet the Enterprise of that era!
The ship was sent back in time by some bullshit time warp weather thingy. Think the anomaly of the week from TNG or VOY, and add ten more layers of bullshit, and you have it. Going through this anomaly made the crew scream and hold their ears, for whatever reason, acted out as if they were listening to a Cliff Richard rendition of some kind.
"Ok, this hasn't started well, but things can only get better, right?!"
Oh yes, MUCH better!
This movie provided one of the worst plots in history. Characters, such as a random senator that the crew saved, were killed off, even introduced, for no reason. A potentially cool story branch with a captured Japanese aviator was ruined when he was hit by about 50 rounds from Marines whilst trying to radio the Japanese fleet to turn around. In fact, the entire movie was appalling, but so appalling to make it brilliant!
You see, the faces on the Japs when two F-14's engaged their Mitsubishi Zero's was quite hilarious! Watching two Tomcats run loops around the Japs whilst they fire their cannons in vain almost made me watching 90 minutes of drivel worth it! The best part, however, was when an AAM was launched at the Zero; talk about overkill!
Anyway, a potentially brilliant denoument was completely ruined when the anomaly reappeared, just as the entire Nimitz air wing prepared to engage the entire Carrier fleet on its way to Pearl! Just how cool that battle would have been [albeit one sided] is not even worth contemplating. Instead, we got to see the crews’ reaction to the Cliff Richard song. Again.
So, anyway, has anyone else watched it? I believe it was made in 1980, or around that time. So bad that it was great!
