The Philadelphia Experiment

TV Movie
2012
12
1h 29m

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In 1943 a secret government cloaking project goes awry vanishing a navy destroyer. In 2012, the destroyer reappears, setting off a series of events threatening to destroy the world.In 1943 a secret government cloaking project goes awry vanishing a navy destroyer. In 2012, the destroyer reappears, setting off a series of events threatening to destroy the world.In 1943 a secret government cloaking project goes awry vanishing a navy destroyer. In 2012, the destroyer reappears, setting off a series of events threatening to destroy the world.

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Trivia
Michael Paré (Hagan) previously played David Herdeg in The Philadelphia Experiment (1984).

Goofs
At around 43 minutes into the film, the Defense Department launches fighter jets--designated Delta Team--from an aircraft carrier. The planes initially shown preparing to launch are F-14 Tomcats, while the ones taking off are F-18 Hornets. Later on (at around 54 minutes and afterwards) the same supposed planes of Delta Team are F-16 Falcons.

Connections
Remake of The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)

Soundtracks
Anne Marie
Written by Loren Fishbein
Performed by Teaneck

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Featured review

1/10

An Honest Review

I want to give props to Nicholas Lea, the man can act, and he can really sell the role he's playing...even if he is in an absolutely horrible movie. So, big hats off to him for bringing his A-Game to this. He made the movie tolerable and I was actually able to finish it because of him.

However, well, the special effects showed too much. Had they hid it in the darkness more they could have saved money, made it look better, and it wouldn't have come across so much like a early 90s made for TV flick.

And it felt that good chunks of the script were written around the special effects and...that didn't help at all.

So the end result was a bad remake of a decent film (one that was clearly low budget and still managed to pull it off by NOT featuring a ton of FXs, with a horrible script...

...but a horrible script that had a fun cameo by Michael Pare for people like me...and a horrible script that Nicholas Lea still managed to sell despite having some of the dumbest and most misplaced lines imaginable.