The Philadelphia Experiment (2012)

The Worst Film Ever

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

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.

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.

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.

I could not connect with the characters on any level keeping them strangers throughout the whole film. As good as the performers were with their respective characters the story appeared to fall short giving them that opportunity. I failed miserably to comprehend a motivation behind many scenes that appear to depict blatant irrationality. As much as I value Michael Pare's work, I don't feel that the kind of killer he was screened to play really had a place in the film.Although the complete retelling of a story so memorable is refreshing, I think it could have been much more successful without the killing and cold-hearted villainy.