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Best movie of this year hands down!

Sadly Over-hyped

Redundant and unnecessary.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

I just have a hobby re-watch old-timers. compared the technology and other scripts that time it is pretty good. Only music is bit boring sometimes even annoying for me. Even the story quiet simple if I am trying to compare similar movies from 80s it still can take the attention, for me 8/10, I recommend anyone who don't care much about the CGI but like sci-fi, this will give you joyful hour.

It was 1984.SFX and CGI were nowhere near the top of their game, but passed with most movies to give us the idea where things were going in plots and particular scenes.The Philadelphia Experiment comes across as more of an independent flick than a typical Hollywood blockbuster. And while it fails on a number of levels for most critics, I felt it did the job and highly entertained for the most part.With great performances from most of its cast, it is the gorgeous Michael Pare who keeps you glued to the screen with his stunning eyes, on-screen charisma, and conviction in the role as the navy officer sent forward in time.Based on potentially true events, TPE isn't perfect but it is worth the watch for fans of time travel movies, 80's action, or just Michael Pare in his role!Enjoyable!

This hasn't gone down in the annals of sci-fi history as one of the great sci-fi stories of all time, but it's an enjoyable enough story and features pretty decent performances from the two leads, Michael Pare and Nancy Allen. It ran the risk of becoming little more than a time travel, fish out of water kind of movie but it overcame that in the end by becoming an interesting and thought-provoking story about the danger of science (or at least scientists) pushing things too far when they really aren't sure what it is they're dealing with.The movie begins in 1943, with the US Navy conducting an experiment to see if it could render the USS Eldridge invisible to enemy radar. In the movie, they not only succeeded in doing that, they accidentally put the Eldridge into some sort of space and time vortex, while two of the crew members, after leaping overboard, inexplicably found themselves in the middle of the Nevada desert in 1984. In that time, strange weather patterns are emerging, and it turns out that another similar experiment has been conducted, which somehow linked the two experiments, creating this "rip" in the time-space continuum that's now threatening to devastate the world.The premise of the movie is OK, and it's based on some urban legends of what happened when the US Navy really did experiment with trying to make naval vessels invisible to German mines using electrical fields during World War II. The actual "story" is that the Eldridge, during one such experiment, actually did disappear from the Philadelphia Harbour in 1943, appear briefly in the harbour at Norfolk, Virginia and then reappear in Philadelphia, apparently having gone backward in time a few seconds. That's legend. There's no evidence that any such thing ever happened, but it makes for a good story. The movie builds on that story, adding the story about a 1984 experiment and creating a more dramatic story of time travel as a result.Pare's character is David Herdeg, an Eldridge crew member who gets trapped in 1984, and Allen plays Allison, who meets him in 1984 and becomes his helper, companion and love interest. The romance element of the story I could have done without. The relationship built too quickly, and while Allen's performance was good, I didn't find the character of Allison to be especially believable. Pare was pretty good portraying David struggling to figure out the world of 1984. (It's a bit jarring to watch this almost 30 years after it was made, trying to imagine the technology of 1984 as mysteriously futuristic. I mean, they still used rotary telephones in this!) The movie weakened at its end. The romance, again, didn't help and it seemed a little bit rushed, although the ethical dilemma was highlighted as David finally encounters the 1984 version of the scientist who had conducted the 1943 experiment and wonders why, given how disastrous the 1943 experiment had obviously been, they would try it again.It's enjoyable enough, though. It's not a classic and I'd characterize it more as a time-waster than anything else, but it's a decent time waster. (6/10)

"The Philadelphia Experiment" may not be a classic, but I really enjoy sci-fi time travel flicks like this. The plot is a clever one, and director Raffill propels it at a good pace, always keeping the viewer interested. The film never outstays its welcome.The special effects crew have fun, although their offering is fairly tame compared to what we've seen in the last fifteen years. Michael Pare is the perfect unaffected hero, and it is surprising his star didn't rise higher than this. As his rescuer and best girl, Nancy Allen does well too. I wonder what became of her.Friday, January 7, 2000 - Video