Philadelphia Experiment II
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| German title | Philadelphia Experiment II |
| Original title | Philadelphia Experiment II |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1993 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Stephen Cornwell |
| script |
Kevin Rock Nick Paine |
| production |
Douglas Curtis Mark Levinson |
| music | Gerald Gouriet |
| camera | Ronn Schmidt |
| cut | Nina Gilberti |
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Philadelphia Experiment II is a US science fiction - action film from the year 1993 . It is the sequel to The Philadelphia Experiment .
action
Nine years have passed since David Herdeg was moved from 1943 to 1984 by Longstreet's experiments. He married Allison and had a son with her. However, his new life is marked by blows of fate in the future. Allison has died after a serious illness leaving him to raise his son alone, and his start-up company has gone bankrupt. The time shift has left its mark on his body. He has suffered badly from his fate. His son doesn't understand his father's problems and feels neglected. This affects the boy's performance in school, and arguments often arise between him and his father.
Based on Long Street's experiments, the scientist Mailer has developed a new technology with which it is possible to teleport objects. So far, he has financed his research with bribes and now wants to convince the US military of his technology. Longstreet has drawn lessons from the disaster that his experiments have wreaked and warns against continuing to support Mailer's research. With doubts now that Mailer's technology is really safe and secure, Mailer's only option is to conduct an unapproved practical experiment to dispel any doubts about his technology. He makes a nuclear-armed fighter plane disappear while it is on the flight from Newfoundland to Wiesbaden , with devastating consequences.
David Herdeg repeatedly experiences pain from the changes in his body when Mailer conducts practical experiments. When Mailer makes the fighter plane disappear, David suddenly finds himself in another world, in which his son no longer exists and the Nazis have achieved world domination. He is somewhere in a restricted zone and is being hunted by security forces until he is finally brought to safety by resistance fighters who have the task of taking him to Longstreet. David learns from Longstreet that 50 years ago, shortly after the Philadelphia Experiment in 1943, the Nazis won the war against the USA with the help of a nuclear-armed fighter plane. The plane (apparently an F-117 Nighthawk ) named "Phoenix" is obviously the one Mailer made disappear.
Friedrich Mahler, Mailer's father of German descent, who worked for the Nazis in 1943, claimed at the time to have designed the aircraft and its armament. When the aircraft was deployed, it was destroyed by its own bombs, as there was no real understanding of the weaponry's destructive potential. Since Mahler was no longer able to build more such aircraft, he was eventually withdrawn from service. Mailer now wants to travel back in time to his father with his newly developed time machine to inform him about the technology of the airplane. Longstreet and his people want to destroy Mailer's time machine to prevent that.
David realizes that in this chaotic world he is apparently the only one who knows that until recently, another and better world existed in which the Nazis lost World War II. He clears up Longstreet and makes it clear to him that it is not Mailer's time machine that has to be destroyed, but rather the plane in the past before it can be used. Mailer cannot use his time machine yet because he has to develop genetically modified blood in order to survive the journey through time. He learns that David Herdeg has reappeared, whose blood has already been genetically modified by the Philadelphia experiment. David is now wanted by Mailer's people and willingly surrenders to them in the hope of getting a deal with Mailer.
David tells Mailer a desire to go back to his original time, when he was born and raised, in order to get Mailer to send him back in time with his time machine so that he can destroy the plane. Mailer does not agree and orders that David should be killed after the blood sample. Then the resistance fighters intervene and prevent David from being killed. While they have a bloody fight with Mailer's people, David and then Mailer, after injecting David's blood, make the time leap into the past. Once there, Mailer stands in front of his father, who only slowly realizes that his son from the future is visiting him to tell him something important. Meanwhile, David manages to destroy the plane by fire. Then he escapes to the time hole, which has not yet closed again, but is shot by Mailer before he can disappear into it. Lying on the ground injured, he shoots Mailer's father. With this, Mailer can no longer exist, since his conception can no longer take place, so that he dissolves and completely disappears from the universe. David dragged himself across the floor with the last of his strength until he was captured by the time hole and returned to the present, where he found the world in its original state again, with the difference that Mailer and his experiments never existed.
background
The film was directed by Trimark Pictures produced and cost 5 million US dollars . It flopped and only grossed $ 2,970 in the US.
criticism
In 1984 director Stewart Raffil shot the science fiction adventure The Philadelphia Experiment, in which a soldier is catapulted into the future. In 1993 Stephen Cornwell picked up this story and created outrageous nonsense about parallel worlds, evil Nazis and nasty researchers. If it weren't for some worth seeing pictures, you could completely forget the strip. "
Web links
- Philadelphia Experiment II in the Internet Movie Database (English)