If you loved Escape from the Planet of the Apes, try The Final Countdown

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Escape from the Planet of the Apes

1971 · dir. Don Taylor

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The Final Countdown

1980 · dir. Don Taylor

What they share

Both films are directed by Don Taylor, and they sit in Action / Science Fiction territory. If that's the register that drew you to Escape from the Planet of the Apes, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What The Final Countdown is

You blink on deck as radar glitches and the ocean vanishes behind a storm that shouldn’t exist. Then the alarms start and you’re at 1941, engines idling over 1941 water. You’re still the same crew, same war, only the date’s wrong. A pitched dogfight looms beneath you, time folding double.

If you loved Escape from the Planet of the Apes, try The Final Countdown

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