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| New World Pictures | Release Date: August 3, 1984 |
Starring:
Bobby Di Cicco, Eric Christmas, Gary Brockette, Joe Dorsey, Kene Holliday, Louise Latham, Michael Currie, Michael Paré, Nancy Allen, Stephen Tobolowsky
Summary:
A United States Navy destroyer escort participates in a Navy invisibility experiment that inadvertently sends two sailors forty years into the future.
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A time-travel yarn of the past arrives in the present persuasion. The 'what the hell's happened?' passages are, as usual, more diverting than the 'what the hell can we do about it?' scenes, the latter involving merely flashing lights, showers of sparks and talk of imploding vortexes.
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The Philadelphia Experiment offers the basis of a good sci-fi thriller, but it's top heavy and never makes it off the ground. If the movie had dealt more with reality and real human reactions to bizarre situations, it would have offered a good screen scare. [28 Aug 1984]
In the hands of a less amateurish director, The Philadelphia Experiment, now at area theaters, might have emerged as an ingratiating sleeper. [09 Aug 1984, p.D6]
It was pretty interesting a couple of years ago, too, when a variation of it was the premise for The Final Countdown. The big difference is that the earler film wasn't bad, and this one is. [03 Aug 1984, p.C9]
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