The Philadelphia Experiment - Reactivated

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Movie
German title The Philadelphia Experiment - Reactivated
Original title The Philadelphia Experiment
Country of production Canada
original language English
Publishing year 2012
length 85 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Paul Ziller
script Andy Briggs
production Tom Berry
Lisa M. Hansen
music Michael Neilson
camera Michael C. Blundell
cut Christopher A. Smith
occupation

The Philadelphia Experiment - Reactivated is a science fiction film from 2012 that was released in German-speaking countries in March 2013. Despite major plot differences, it is considered a remake of The Philadelphia Experiment from 1984.

action

A secret government project seeks to continue the World War II Philadelphia experiment aimed at making warships invisible. This materializes the USS Eldridge warship , which disappeared on the first attempt in 1943, in the present. Bill Gardener, the only survivor of the catastrophe, arrives with the ship in our time and meets his granddaughter Molly there. In return, Molly's fiancé, Deputy Carl Reed, gets on the ship, which disappears again shortly afterwards and materializes via Chicago, where it crashes into a high-rise.

Bill, whose body is still connected to the ship, senses the transit, and the situation worsens when the Eldridge moves again to a new location, this time a desert area outside the United States, and the secret service tries to address the problem by destroying the ship to solve. The result is another leap, destroying a nuclear power station in England. Nevertheless, the secret service is sticking to its strategy of violence and is trying to liquidate all witnesses, including Bill. It soon becomes clear to him that the space-time structure was severely disturbed by the experiment and that he absolutely has to get back to the Eldridge in order to stop the impending destruction of the world.

This finally succeeds with the help of the scientist who carried out the experiment and thereby set the chain of events in motion. Bill returns to the Eldridge, where he and Carl have to take out one last agent. Finally, Carl can leave the ship at the last minute and flee with Molly, while the Eldridge and Bill are dragged back into their time.

In the last scene, Bill stands as an old man in Molly's kitchen: the past has changed and the Eldridge has - in this timeline - returned to Philadelphia.

criticism

“In and of itself, Ziller's reboot of the time travel classic is quite exciting; the visual effects are also quite good for a television production. Unfortunately, screenwriter Andy Briggs covers the story to such an extent that the film threatens to tip over into the ridiculous from around the middle. Also annoying: Michael Neilson's dull carpet of sound. "

- CineDat

Trivia

Michael Paré (Hagan) played the role of David Herdeg in the original version from 1984. The scene in which Lieutenant Bill Gardner sees a recent issue of USA Today and realizes that he is in 2012 is an allusion to Back to the Future 2 in which Marty McFly also recognizes from an issue of USA Today that he is now in Year 2015 is.

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