Time Under Fire |
  • USA • 1997 • 92m •    • Directed by: Scott P. Levy, Tripp Reed. • Starring: Jeff Fahey, Richard Tyson, Jack Coleman, Bryan Cranston, Linda Hoffman, Kimberly Stevens, Larry Poindexter, Richard Cummings, Jay Acovone, Chick Vennera, Michael Raysses, Rick Batalla, David Weiss. • Music by: David Wurst, Eric Wurst.     A US submarine runs into a time rift. A special unit goes on a mission to see what's on the other side. They find themselves in an alternate dystopian America, now a one-man dictatorship. They decide to help the rebels.
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Review:
Fahey plays a submarine captain whose ship goes through a portal in time, just like in THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT. When he returns he's treated like a crazy and incarcerated in a mental hospital in scenes copied from TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY. Eventually the authorities believe his story and take him back through the portal as part of a commando team; the guys end up in an alternate reality future which has become a dictatorship ruled over by a guy who looks like Emperor Palpatine in RETURN OF THE JEDI.
Elsewhere, Bryan Cranston (credited here as Brian) gives a sleepwalking performance as a suit, while Richard Tyson (KINDERGARTEN COP) is the wooden main villain. The film boasts some frankly ludicrous scenes, like the bit where Fahey kills a guard but isn't punished because, you know, he is the hero and all. The ending descends into cheesy sci-fi territory with bits of FORTRESS and STARGATE copied in. The result? Light and laughable, although it's not the worst of its type and at least it isn't boring.
Review by Leofwine_draca from the Internet Movie Database.
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