The Final Countdown (1980)
Directed by Don Taylor
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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What critics compared The Final Countdown to
The film this most reminds me of goes back to the 1980 “The Final Countdown” starring Kirk Douglas, a sci-fi’er in which a modern aircraft carrier gets mysteriously transported back to December 1941 in the hours leading up to the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.
Loretta takes the stage with her longtime be-wigged, dimwitted and Fabio-like cover model Dash—real name Alan (Channing Tatum)—who makes his entrance to the sounds of the bombastic stadium rocker “The Final Countdown,” and I guess we’re supposed to take that as an homage to Will Arnett as Gob already mining that particular routine to perfection in “Arrested Development”?
But movies like1980’s Somewhere in Time and The Final Countdown, two of the best, had plausible bases for the time travel.
Dunkirk instantly enters the pantheon of great war films, alongside Das Boot, Full Metal Jacket, Saving Private Ryan, and The Final Countdown.