![]() ![]() Later on, he settles on country swing, but it still doesn't sound quite right. After listening to Mahler, Wagner, Strauss, and Handl, he decides that "highbrow Eurotrash" won't cut it. The main bad guy is introduced as he tries to decide what background music to use for a propaganda film celebrating 50 years of totalitarian rule. A Little Something We Call "Rock and Roll": Rock's absence in the alternate Nazi-run America is indirectly noted. ![]() Identical Grandson: The main villain and his father are played by the same actor.Gone Horribly Wrong: You'd think that scientists in this world would have figured out by now not to try to teleport things or make them invisible.Godwin's Law of Time Travel: The point of the film.I had just watched the original film days before this one and I said that the material was so strong that it really needed a bigger budget to fully capture everything it could. Malcolm McDowell has a quite cameo but is a lot of fun and the original star Michael Pare is also on hand here so that should thrill fans of the 1984 film. I thought both Lea and Ullerup were extremely good in their roles and their performances made the film all the more enjoyable. I'd say the superhuman powers that Gardner receives is also something that didn't work too well. The problem happens when the super secret government people start to show up with murder in their eyes and this is when the first loses its brain and fall off track. I thought the early scenes between him and his granddaughter were quite entertaining and I thought the action scenes that followed with the two were well directed. What I enjoyed most about the first half is simply the confusion of the Bill Gardner character as he tries to figure out what went wrong in the 1943 experiment and how it has gotten him placed in 2012. Anything in the original movie but sadly the final thirty-minutes start to go overboard but in the end we're still left with a fairly impressive movie and especially considering it aired on SyFy. ![]()
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