Kirpianuscus
a nice idea. and a reasonable use of it. the love story. and the exploration of the time travel with not bad result. a film who must be discovered in the context of its period. because, out of it, it seems be misunderstood. sure, it is far to be a masterpiece but its basic virtue is to remind a moment from WWII and to propose a story starting from it. and nothing wrong in essence. only sides of an ambiguous situations, mixing romanticism Sci. Fi. and Michael Pare with Eric Christmas. sure, the pillar remains Nancy Allen performance.but the film, as start point for a large controversy, is more than nice. and this fact, maybe, is the most important.
Bruno Andrade
this movie is very underrated i think the acting was great and the story line was very good, i find the special effects ahead of it's time. I think a war film with time travel, is very good, i usually hate love stories but i think it was kind of cool the way it was done 2 people from different times he is actually going to become the oldest person in the planet if we think about it . If you are into sci-fi films, then I recommend this film for shore and I'm gonna watch this film allot of times again in the future. Nancy Allen's performance is on top, such great acting. i can't wait to have this movie in a home video format VHS or DVD it's a must have in my DVD or VHS collection
SnoopyStyle
In 1943, the US Navy conducted a series of invisibility tests. David Herdeg (Michael Paré) and Jim Parker are sailors on the destroyer USS Eldridge being tested in the Philadelphia Harbor conducted by Dr. James Longstreet. The ship disappears but not just on radar. The two sailors jump ship and get thrown into 1984 Nevada. They get chased by a helicopter but escape. It's an alien world to them. Longstreet had conducted another experiment but this time an entire town disappeared. The guys walk to a gas station diner and end up carjacking Allison Hayes (Nancy Allen).It's a fine sci-fi idea based on the persistent conspiracy theory. It has great bones for a cool movie. There are some silly bits and weaker parts. Stewart Raffill is not the best director around but he does a competent job in this one. The movie doesn't really have any snap to it. Michael Paré and Nancy Allen are solid leading actors during the 80's but they're not the most compelling couple. The movie doesn't take full advantage and build on a compelling start.
jefffisher65-708-541158
The Philadephia Experiment is a decent time travel/action film with some romance thrown in for the ladies, which I often don't really like, but since it's Nancy Allen, I won't complain. Ms. Allen had a nice run of sci-fi and horror films in the 1970s and 1980s starting with the original Carrie(as the meanest of the tormentors of Carrie White even if most the "tennage" cast for that film were already a bit too old) on to some other classics, Strange Invaders, the Robocop series, and so on. I missed the in-joke here about her character's name "Allison Hayes," who was a gorgeous 1950s sci-fi and horror scream queen.The film itself is based on the possibly-true experiment to "cloak" naval ships during World War Two; differing versions exist of the experiment, but it at least seems possible. All sides were trying to develop secret weapons during the conflict.Anyway, Michael Pare' plays David, one of two sailors tossed into then-present year 1984 where another try at the same experiment is proving to be a really bad idea. He becomes involved with Allison fairly-quickly, and they go through several near-fatal adventures before he agrees to go back in time, and try to set everything right then, and in the 1980s. The conclusion seems to have been designed for the sake of the "romance" crowd, but all in all, this is a decent enough film which works on several levels, I think.For those interested, a good deal of material is available from various sources on the Experiment. Meantime, I can certainly recommend this movie to sci-fi fans easily enough, or fans of Ms. Allen, of course.
