If you loved The Last Starfighter, 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.
What they share
Theysit in Action / Science Fiction territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Last Starfighter, 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.

