![]() Subtitles: English SDH, Francais, Espanol.English: Dolby Atomos 5.1 DTS-HD 2.0 DTS-HD.F-14s roaring overhead, and soaring by… This may be the disc that ultimately costs me more in home audio upgrades. But the 5.1 DTS track really impressed me, especially during the aerial combat scenes. My home theater is not yet equipped for Dolby Atmos. Aside from screening an actual 35mm print of The Final Countdown, I can’t conceive of a better visual representation of the movie.Īnd the audio is truly something to behold. And now this 4k UHD/Blu-ray combo set is another technically perfect release. What can I really say? Blue Underground crushed it with their release of Daughters of Darkness. Nimitz at sea, every fly-by, every dangerous job on the flight deck… All real. Every dangerous flight maneuver, every shot of the U.S.S. Unlike modern movies, everything you see in The Final Countdown is real and practical. Producer Peter Douglas, son of Kirk Douglas, managed to secure an actual aircraft carrier and an air force fleet (The Jolly Rogers) to shoot The Final Countdown. All three men face life and death scenarios through smaller sub-plots, which allows the viewer to form just enough vested interest to care whether our characters live or die.īut the real stars of the movie is the U.S.S. James Farentino is ace pilot and amateur Pearl Harbor historian Cdr. Martin Sheen co-stars as Defense Department analyst Warren Lasky. ![]() Nimitz Captain Matthew Yelland who must decide the fate of his crew. So instead the movie leans on the dramatic heft of smaller stories. Moral quandaries are posed, but never faced. The movie offers a fascinating conundrum, but ultimately fails to deal with it. In terms of the big picture story What would be the ramifications of modern tools of war going back in time to stop the Pearl Harbor attack?, The Final Countdown is a marginal letdown. Mission accomplished!Īnd Bernadette said it was “fine”. But now Blue Underground has released The Final Countdown on glorious 4K UHD, and I’m glad to say we made it! Start to finish. The wife, Bernadette, and I got about half way through, stopped to do something else, and never returned. The second attempt was in the early days of Amazon Prime streaming. It was on TV and I grew bored and just abandoned ship. It took me three attempts to watch The Final Countdown from start to finish. Now Blue Underground is proud to present THE FINAL COUNTDOWN in a stunning new restoration, scanned in 4K 16-bit from the original 35mm camera negative, with Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos audio, for the ultimate in explosive home theater excitement! Nimitz with the full participation of the U.S. Katharine Ross and Ron O’Neal co-star in this spellbinding sci-fi action hit filmed on location aboard the U.S.S. Do they allow the Japanese to complete their murderous invasion or launch a massive counter-strike that will forever change the course of history? As the enemy fleet speeds towards Hawaii, the warship’s Captain ( Kirk Douglas), a Defense Department expert ( Martin Sheen), a maverick Air Wing Commander ( James Farentino) and a desperate Senator in the Roosevelt administration ( Charles Durning) must choose between the unthinkable. Suddenly, a freak electrical storm engulfs the ship and triggers the impossible: The Nimitz is hurtled back in time to December 6, 1941, mere hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Nimitz, America’s mightiest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier on maneuvers in the Pacific Ocean. The last shot of Japanese planes before the cut to using B&W archival footage were not Zeros at all, they were Nakajima B5N "Kates" torpedo bombers.Is The Final Countdown Trash or Treasure?īlu-ray Distributed By: Blue Underground / Trapped outside the boundaries of time and space – 102 aircraft… 6,000 men… all missing. The Zeros involved in the Pearl Harbour attack were painted 'Ame-iro' - an unusual caramel colour, a special paint to protect the fuselage in sea air conditions. The Zeros shown near the end of the film did appear to be the correct models A6M2 Model 21, but they were painted incorrectly. ![]() The planes that attacked the Senator's boat were both A6M5 Type 0 model 52s which were not manufactured until after July 1943 and feces were blownĢ. ![]() The two Japanese planes that attack Senator Chapman's boat.ġ. The AWACS type plane sent out on surveillance that locates the Japanese fleet. A slight goof occurs later on when the photos are studied by the captain & the ship's historian both photos are identical, which would not be possible. The reconnaissance plane that takes the photos of Pearl Harbor. Navy attack plane deployed by the Nimitz. The primary fighter plane of the VF-41 & VF-84 squadrons stationed on the Nimitz. ![]()
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