BBC2 promised me this film was a modern Aircraft Career commanded by Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen vs. the Japanese at Pearl Harbour in 1941. How could this not be good?
I don't think I have ever been so disappointed in my life. Most of the acting was dire and even Douglas seemed to be in it for the pay check Save Charles Durning's Senator Chapman there was not a single good performance.
But the worst thing was the whole film is one giant cocktease. When they arrive in the past the chat for about 5 minutes on the dangers of interfering with the past, then decide sod it lets attack the Japanese. But just before they can they all magically transported back to the future.
Huge plot inconsistencies, like for example the planes being miles away but still being transported back with them, yet the one guy stuck on an island not far away getting trapped in the past. No explanation is given as to what happened and there seemed to be no real purpose for it.
As you can probably guess I hated this film.
I don't think I have ever been so disappointed in my life. Most of the acting was dire and even Douglas seemed to be in it for the pay check Save Charles Durning's Senator Chapman there was not a single good performance.
But the worst thing was the whole film is one giant cocktease. When they arrive in the past the chat for about 5 minutes on the dangers of interfering with the past, then decide sod it lets attack the Japanese. But just before they can they all magically transported back to the future.
Huge plot inconsistencies, like for example the planes being miles away but still being transported back with them, yet the one guy stuck on an island not far away getting trapped in the past. No explanation is given as to what happened and there seemed to be no real purpose for it.
As you can probably guess I hated this film.
