Mum's Monday: The Final Countdown

Could the attack on Pearl Harbour be prevented? With time travel, maybe.

The film starts as just another ordinary day on an air craft carrier, the USS Nimitz. Slowly it becomes apparent, something is not quite right. The film runs at a nice pace; it isn’t rushed that it becomes unrealistic.

The special effects are well done, if a little extreme. Afterwards it is good to see the attention to detail as to operations/how they work on an air craft carrier.

As far as the air craft carrier crew is concerned and apart from not really knowing what is going on or is happening, it is business as usual for the ship and the surrounding ocean.

The realisation of their situation slowly becomes apparent to the air craft carrier crew, although they are in denial the facts are there, which are described in the script really well.

It is lovely to see the dog rescued. With the unexpected introductions over, all are safe but are unfamiliar with the surrounding machinery.

This film shows that you cannot have a time travel film without the in-depth discussion on how it all works, or doesn’t work and how it can drive people crazy.

It is sad but true to real life that when someone is trying to help someone else it is not always obvious. In modern times things are done differently than in the past. It is inevitable things are not going to be understood.

In the circumstances there is only one question ‘What is going on?’ two things I can be sure of is that Senator Samuel Chapman (Charles Durning) wants some clothes and the dog has gone missing. Other than that it is a very confusing situation.

Another storm is forming, it seems history didn’t want to be changed, well not all of it anyway.