SunnyHello
Nice effects though.
Afouotos
Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
AnhartLinkin
This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.
Joe
I have to laugh at the reviews that try so hard to make this movie sound watchable. There are no positives here - the acting is amateur, the effects are amateur, the whole thing just comes off as extremely amateur.One big thing I hate is a movie involving military that puts absolutely no effort into making the military look authentic, especially period authentic. Just for starters, the beginning of the movie is supposed to be in 1943, but all the military men have haircuts from today, and not a single one is close to even today's military standards, much less 1943. It ruins the idea, because they look like modern actors playing 1943 dress up with no more effort than trying on some military clothes. Even the modern military men in the movie don't look close to authentic.The acting? Unbelievably cheesy. It honestly looks like this was everybody's very first movie after taking a semester of high school drama class. It really is that bad.The basic story itself could probably be a good one, if it was rewritten - this one is a poor effort all around. Easily one of the worst made and worst acted movies I've ever seen.
Bobby Hollywood
There are some mess-ups with technical stuff in the movie, but for me that did not take away from the movie, I enjoyed all of it, and thought some of the special effects were pretty good. It was well worth my time, and after it ended, I felt that I had seen a good movie, that's more than I can say for some movies now-a-days.
Rent or own, in my humble opinion it is worth the price, I would own it:)
moonrazer-487-184393
OK this movie was kind of roller coaster for me. During the opening scenes when you could tell that the leads didn't think it was necessary to get period haircuts, I began to have my doubts. Things began to pick up though when the convoy was crossing the big bridge. This is the old Cooper River Bridge (Silas Pearman Bridge) in Charleston SC. I recognized it immediately and when they panned to Patriots Point. (A museum where the Laffey, the ship used for the Eldridge, was docked) I was hooked for a few seconds anyway. This bridge has been torn down and replaced in the last few years. It was during this scene that the continuity errors began to creep in. The vehicles used for the convoy were 1980's vintage military trucks and jeeps, likely borrowed by the SC National Guard. The jeeps were really out of place since the M 151's used in the convoy over the bridge was a Vietnam era jeep that was in production until 1982. The trucks were just as bad. This was compounded when they used the same type vehicles for present day scene in Nevada. Period correct vehicles would have set the scene apart and in 1984, WW II era vehicles in South Carolina would not have been that hard to find. The aircraft carrier used for some of the background is the Yorktown. If you look closely in some of the scenes you can see some of the jet planes that are displayed on the flight deck, clearly out of place in a WW II movie. Another thing out of place is the NS Savannah which was the first nuclear merchant ship built in the 1950's It was on display at the museum at this time and is in some of the scene and it looks very modern docked with the WWII vets. Another scene I found annoying was when they were driving and would do a close up on one of the sailor in the mirror and it was obvious the car wasn't moving. This movie reminded me of the Final Countdown made for television. The Countdowns special effects were much better although they will not serve as benchmark for anything, so that's really not saying much. I could see this as a feature on MSTK 3000.
Les Packer
I'm on a watching old movie kick. Although I'm not so sure that the 80's is all that old since I can still recall seeing this back then! Watching it now sure gives another perspective! First off were all females as whiney and annoying as Nancy Allen's character? Allison.. "Don't listen to him David, just don't listen. Tell me what's going on, just tell me. I can't just say things once, not only once? I repeat things in case you didn't hear it, just in case." And OMG did everyone smoke cigarettes? What were we thinking> I rather enjoyed the special effects of the time - not overdone - but made the point. The story was what the story was - and it is and has been a classic. Lot's of the actual written story was removed in place of lovey dovey and whiney stuff - but that's alright. I personally would have loved to see more 1980's stuff - here in 2013 - from the perspective of someone from years before. I'm seeing it from the past and he's seeing it from the future. I'm looking forward to a movie where women are more "modern" - not quite sure where or when that's going to be.
