Reportedly based on a true incident during In the seventh heaven Fighting II involving an anti-radar or invisibility experiment that caused a US Navy Destroyer Eldridge to cease to exist from Philadelphia Harbor. A sailor finds himself thrown into the expected (1984).
The Philadelphia Experiment
A pro tem-globe-trotting trips account of the 'past arrives in the turn' denomination. Two WWII sailors involved in some early radar...
I remember this from a preview i saw way back. I don't recall the movie i saw but it was probably good. I searched around for decades but finally saw it here.
Thank you watch-movies for two reasons
1. I don't have to look anymore
2. Thank you for keeping me from buying it.
This is a bad movie. It starts with mild to high intrigue. The time machine concept is always interesting to me. You don't need great actors. You have to have actors who can poke fun at themselves. And that is where the movie fails.
Philadelphia experiment is so unfunny the story collapses under it's own weight of self importance revealing everything under the hood including a weak script that resorts to mindless action scenes. Revealing the leads as futile.
Michael Pare is super bad here, his line delivery and reaction time are epic. Nancy Allen is a little better, but this was no stretch for her.This is a movie that needs to be remade. Just don't hire Pare and you might have something.
