The Philadelphia Experiment
The Philadelphia Experiment
PG-13 | 27 July 2012 (USA)
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A secret government research project tries reviving the World War II "Philadelphia Experiment," which was an attempt to create a cloaking device to render warships invisible. When the experiment succeeds, it brings back the original ship (the Eldridge) that disappeared during the first test in 1943 - which brings death and destruction to the 21st century. It's up to the sole survivor of the first experiment and his granddaughter to stop it.

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aquarichy

I truly revile stories where people have meaningless dialogue. If you are told by the resident expert on a subject that bombing something will a) not harm it, and b) will rebound and cause 10-fold damage to the surrounding area, and then you do it anyway, and it turns out the expert is right, along with destroying a nuclear power reactor (and presumably a large chunk of the UK?), then having a character continue on their stupid course of action persistently, and murdering everyone who might actually be useful, makes for a very stupid character. This film is 2 hours watching a very stupid character, and being annoyed at the consequences.

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R A Abbott

Whilst ironing I figured I'd turn the TV on, this film was already on. Ever witnessed a car crash or someone fall over, you know it's going to be bad but you couldn't look away? This was like that. I watched it to the bitter end, it's flawed and cheesy, poorly edited and the soundtrack trite, I rate several of the actors in it but you can only do so much so I don't lay the blame at their feet as if the script is laughable and the director tells you to stumble down that corridor uttering scripted banalities then that's what you do. The original was much better with probably a much smaller budget and FX team so watch that instead. Trust me. Still, I did get my ironing done and that's something.

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ActorAndrewFord

Has everything considering the REAL Philadelphia Experiment was actually a real top secret event that has come to be known to the public through the years. This "SYFY Channel Original" leaves off where the original 1984 film did, and is impressive for a SYFY low-budget film not to be confused with SCI-Fi Channel original channel title; which was a completely different Era in Sci-Fi films, where you couldn't discern Low-budget films from high budget.Of course, from an actor point-of-view -which is higher judging ability; which this review is of course - the 80's through the 90's had superior talent industry in general not to be confused with todays "Disney channel actors"; case & point.The old pro actors had such a dry script however, they pulled-off a decent Sci-Fi film because the true Philedelphia event as mentioned before in fact occurred even according to the Government and military records which cannot be falsified; case & point. Truths isn't conjured-up to be entertainment, that's why all these films on the Philadelphia military Experiment are not so "Hollywood" bull jacked up and is what made this movie work.Only thing the script could have improved upon like all documentary based stories is to give us some real answers on the event finally NOT fictional ones that end like a Kevin Trudea installment where your left with more questions then answers.

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garrett_cranney

If it wasn't for the hot girl and somewhat OK storyline to the movie I would've rated it a 1/10 or 0/10. This is one of those movies with a very low budget, 20-50 people max are featured in the movie. There are hardly any details in the movie that it makes it boring, dull, and an unworthy movie to watch.If I were to recommend anything to anyone about this movie it would be to not waste your time watching it as there are too many flaws to it and unrealism to it.Unwrapped story: Two people in a small town of course are boyfriend/girlfriend and the boyfriend gets stuck in the ship. The guy who was in the ship gets out and it starts teleporting to areas around the world. The bad guys are people who are in the company who produced the so called teleporter and want to destroy the ship, but want to keep the technology/teleporter for future use. Turns out they don't listen to the scientist who is right and end up getting killed because of it. Rest of the story is on you or other reviews to waste your time with such an awful movie.

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