A made for TV movie based, intended as a sequel to a old movie of the same name, from 1984. The premise being that the US military lost a battleship in a secret experiment designed to make ships invisible to radar.
The original movie starred Michael Paré, a popular and active B-series actor, who was probably better known in the 80’s than today. I saw the original movie in 1984, and found it at the time quite enjoyable. He has a very small role in this sequel/remake as a different (and forgettable) character.
This also stars a well known character actor (Nicholas Lea) that played a double agent in the X-Files who ended up being the carrier for the black oil space creature. So fans of the X-Files will be quite familiar with him.
This movie is so low budget, the sherif in this thing wears blue jeans and has long curly hair, neither I would think would be acceptible for a sherif to get away with. I guessthey simply couldn’t afford the pants to match the fake police officer shirt. Sad!
The 2012 version of The Philadelphia Experiment is real really bad, low budget and poorly acted and written. It’s always sad when decent movies have poor remakes or sequels that falls short of the original, and only cloud the name and memory of movies we like.
4/10
