The Final Countdown - 3 1/2 stars out of 5 stars

You want your sci- fi with your WW2 well this is the flick.What if todays super carrier ,well 1980 release 103 minutes version,of the Nimitz could go back in December 7th and attack the Japanese fleet before it gets to Pearl Harbor??? Well,no doubt history would change radically.This film concerns it self with just such a dilemma.Casting Kirk Douglas as Capt. Matthew Yelland,commander of the Nimitz  and Martin Sheen as Warren Lasky  as a contractor,the die is cast.Sheens character is also a talisman for the old time travel paradox that becomes clear at the end of the picture.There is also a death that happens in the past that is ignored,a marine guard and Japanese pilot, as the bum who died in the famous Star Trek episode,The City on the Edge of Forever.I'm NOT talking about the senator like I'm not talking about Sister Edith Keeler.Both serve to give you endless discussions of what ifs?Yah go ahead and say they would have died later in the war anyway.Humm butterfly effect anyone?That to me is the real talking point of this film.Strongly recommended for those who like what ifs'.I took 1 1/2 stars of because they didn't save Pearl Harbour.The big fight was stopped by the same storm that brought them there.I would preferred a more time line changing ending such as in A Sound of Thunder which I gave 4 stars in a earlier review.Trailer URL follows pix

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=min2ohR8j3U