The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)
Based on an urban legend, The Philadelphia Experiment tells a “Twilight Zone”-ish story of a bizarre occurrence during a Naval test in the middle of WWII. This test was an attempt to rig the US battleships...
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Down Periscope (1996)
Down Periscope is a comedy without laughs. It’s goofy, light, and amiable, but it’s just not funny. It’s so unfunny, it is actually painful to see just how hard they try to be funny and...
Innerspace (1987)
Another screwball genre flick from director Joe Dante, and like most of his films, the set-up is solid, but the climax makes the plot come unhinged with non-stop madness and mayhem. Luckily, by the...
Behind Enemy Lines (2001)
More Rambo than Saving Private Ryan, Behind Enemy Lines hearkens back to the war flicks of the Eighties, with its highly patriotic tone, its glamorization of the fight, and the resolve and diligence of the one-man Army, or in...
A Few Good Men (1992)
Obviously, I will be in the minority of people who don’t think A Few Good Men is a great movie worthy of an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. Personally, I find the direction by Rob...
U-571 (2000)
There’s always a lot of natural tension when a movie takes place in a submarine. There’s the fact that what little air and space the men on board have is precious, and any of...
Top Gun (1986)
Top Gun is a quintessential Reagan-era by-product, a pure fantasy highlighted by typical concentration on materialism and superficiality. From the synthesized score by Harold Faltermeyer to the synth-rock tunes of Berlin and Kenny Loggins,...
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
The best submarine commander in the Soviet Union (Connery, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) now leads the maiden voyage of the Red October, a spiffy new nuclear submarine capable of going undetected by sonar, to...