Le Projet Philadelphia, l'expérience interdite (2012) Online

I had looked forward to this and I was so disappointed. What a wonderful movie the first was ..... and now this

Acting awful despite good actors .... must be the directors fault.

There are under-laying music during the whole movie which is properly the only way they thought they could get excitement up with the viewers.

Its just awful, awful, awful.

What a shame ....... it could really have been good

Why would anybody do this and spoil the memory of an excellent movie is pitiful.

This is up there with the BEST of them. The best of CRAP that is...it looks like it was written by a 13 year old schoolboy and the editing isn't much better. The actors involved in this must've been damned hard up for cash because their talents are totally wasted on this poor excuse for entertainment.

I'm not going to spoil it because there is nothing to spoil. The studio did a fine job of that all by themselves.

Just don't waste your time. Watch a soapie or go out and hire an old 50's scifi. I'm sure they had a thing called continuity and good editing back then. It seems to be a dying art these days.

First of all this is a SyFy movie so be warned not to expect too much from their movies. In all honesty this is the best SyFy movie i've seen from them by far (sadly i've seen more than a few)

Do not get your hopes up , it are all the familiar faces again and the usual story arcs but at least this time the writers have made an effort to come up with a story that isn't an insult to anyone with more than 3 working braincells. Then again giving it your full attention may cause pain and irregular bowel movements.

You can see they are learning with every flick they make. Instead of bad cgi they are now using less fx and more suggestion leaving more budget for effects when they really need to have it included.

The acting isn't bad considering the script the actors have to work with but please leave logic at the door.

In short this is a movie for when you want 85 minutes of "no brainer" activity or somethng in the background while you are multitasking but i think the movie works best if you watch it in group with a few drinks so you can slam the scenario or the lines as you go along.

Give it a shot but don't expect to be blown away.

Corniest movie I've ever seen - can't believe that Malcolm Macdowall would lend his name to this tripe.

Simply unbelievable sequences where a (seemingly) 30-35 year old woman can single handedly order nuclear attacks (OK OK - so she says the President authorized it - but dear me).

Not clear why they are trying to kill the main characters chasing them all over the countryside (despite the scientific advice that says don't do it).

Also when Carl finally gets off the ship by metamorphosing through the hull (how did he do that?) - there is Molly standing at that very point to meet him

The Philadelphia Experiment (2012)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

Decent remake of the 1984 film mainly just takes the basic plot and takes it into a new direction so those who loved the original movie and its love story can rest easy. In this version, a government agency is doing work on the original Philadelphia Experiment when something goes wrong and the ship Eldridge ends up floating around in time. The sole survivor (Nicholas Lea) ends up getting off the ship in 2012 and teams up with his granddaughter (Emilie Ullerup) to try and find out what's going on and how to stop it. I actually thought that the first hour of this film was better than 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. 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. 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. 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'd say the superhuman powers that Gardner receives is also something that didn't work too well. I thought both Lea and Ullerup were extremely good in their roles and their performances made the film all the more enjoyable. 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 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. That didn't really happen with this movie as there's still something better that could come from the material but this here is still worth viewing.

Sy Fy gets no respect when it comes to "Another Sy Fy original ....".

This one isn't so bad of a production. But the story really doesn't do any justice to the lore of the Philadelphia Experiment.

I come to Sy Fy channel for simple entertainment, and this movie was OK in this regard. Although I sincerely wish that one day somebody with Steven Spielberg caliber talent would create an Indiana Jones level expose film about the Philadelphia Experiment.

One thing I have to give this movie credit is that it's beautifully shot.

For a low budget movie it's well crafted, and my hats off to the producers for keeping the production quality high.

Not so compelling of a story, and that's the problem of this movie, but this is about the level of production I come to expect from "Another Sy Fy original ....".

Deaf, dumb and blind!

Americans think they can just crouch over their viewers and send their kids to the pool while spending what seems to be a small fortune.

There is nothing original about this film. There is nothing tangible about this film. The actors leave everything to be desired. The story is so loose that what ever you could imagine happens next would be better than what actually happens next.

This film is pure proof of making films to provide jobs for actors and actress plus crew that don't really deserve to be in the business. They have no shame in handing you the viewer a great big pile of steaming cow pat and calling it entertainment.

I yearn for any decent scifi, it used to exist and now it somehow just doesn't, I feel completely deflated and let down, so many chances and yet so many complete belly flops.

I saw the first movie of 1984, it was great. This one hardly made any sense at all. If most people don't like a movie they rate it a B movie. This one truly deserves deserves a D rating if their is such a rating. You like a movie to make some feasible sense, what were you all thinking about. Did your right hand not know what your left hand was doing........ Brother...... Some of the actors were good in the show and some were down right awful. The director must have had a hang over or something. He wasn't piecing together anything that that I could swallow. If I were one of those actors I would not admit that I made that movie. Just tell them that wasn't you, it was a look a like.

The Philadelphia Experiment Reactivated is a very entertaining and good movie with a plausible connection to the original movie about the Philadelphia Experiment (1984). However, the reintroduction of Michael Paré as a different character than David Herdeg, screws things somewhat up. He didn't change that much.

That fact aside, it is fair to say that the film has a decent story, a good plot, but what pulls a little bit down is the poor choice of actors for some of the roles.

On the other side the film has its dosage of scare-propaganda towards the positive effects of Nikolae Tesla's inventions. It seems that some people (yes, I know this seems like conspiracy theory) are really scared of Tesla's inventions coming into everyday use by common man.

Anyway it is reasonable and good entertainment.

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.

This was a very disappointing movie. I give it two starts for introducing a completely different storyline from the first movie, but it isn't much of a story, its more of a one-liner. The concept of a time traveling ship has so many possibilities and many of these were used with great success in the original movie. It had a bit of science, not much but enough to make you wonder. It had humor, warmth and characters you cared about. This movie doesn't have any of this. The new movie just takes the ship and uses it as a prop. The cinematography also blows, very few shots are of movie-quality, this movie is basically an extended TV-series episode. Do not watch this movie if you have a brain.

-Spoiler alert:

The core of the movie is a science experiment gone wrong, to fix it the "bad guys" will solve it by shooting/bombing it. There's a ton of shooting and bombing in this movie and the "bad guys" are lead by an over zealous hot chick hell bent on some kind of death rage on the involved characters. Thats all she is. One dimensional.

Had I known that this movie was from SyFy, I would've left this one on the shelf.

SyFy is developing a rather disconcerting tendency to use absolutely horrid animation. Additionally, the low budget of the films they produce preclude the use of any type of technical advisors.

Using Army rank insignia on a supposedly Naval uniform is a big NO NO! And his "wash khakis" look as if they came off the shelf at K-mart.

USS Eldridge should not be plastered all over the ship, nor the hull number. And when Eldridge fell from the sky onto the building, the resulting impact would've broken her back.

This one is going directly to the pawn shop so I may recoup some of the money I spent on this abomination.

This director attend to HUMAN INTELLIGENCE when he write this childish high school hipster DIALOGUES

very very unprofessional actors fake every emotion

very very bad movie on of the POST awards of 2012 POS = PieceOfShit

dear FRIENDS,this movie is a waste of 80 and some minutes of your Life

PLEASE WATCH THE OLDER VERSION,WHERE THE ACTORS ARE ACTORS AND SCENARIO IS 10/10

try to understand my review and don't watch this

you will be disgusted by LOW LOW VOICE ACTING

i don't want to spoil,but this movie sucks in all kind of aspects

The effects were good, which is why I didn't give it a 1. It was also cool that Michael Pare had a part, even though they made him a bad guy. My biggest complaint was that there was a bad guy (in this case, lots of them). The plot had the same twist on the original that seems to be common in most remakes. Instead of good, if misguided, people trying to fix a scientific screw-up, it was all about the evil government bastards trying to keep the technology and to hell with everyone else. The only difference to this twist was that this time the evil government bastard was female. It's common in movies for the person in charge to be stupid, ignore the scientists' advice, and do exactly the things that will make the situation worse, but in addition to the stupidity she really was evil. She kept ordering innocent people to be shot, shot one herself (with a deranged smile on her face), and ordered bombs to be dropped at every opportunity. It was also irritating that Pare's character didn't die from things that should have killed 10 men. Don't waste your time with this one.

Scientists in 2012 try to renew a 1940s experiment in Philadelphia that made a US Navy Warship, The USS Eldridge DE 173 disappear and reappear at will. The purpose in the early 1940s experiment was to create a cloaking device so that mines would not "see" the ship (remember, we were at war at this time).

In this movie, the scientists use a late model car for the experiment to see if they can cloak it. The problem occurs when the generators at the facility link to the generators on the Eldridge and make it appear and disappear. We are told in here that the Eldridge had completely disappeared back in the 1940s. In this movie, the Eldridge appears on a local airfield, on top of a building in Chicago, in a desert. and later back at the facility where we started (but we knew that would happen, right? Work with me).

Many including our government say the Philadelphia Experiment was a hoax. Go to Wikipedia and read up on everything.

But, here we are dealing with a movie produced and shown for our entertainment. And, very entertaining it was. Of course, this is not a comedy but some Hollywood comedic techniques (silly and stupid) are used. Witness the contractors in charge of this experiment who want to bomb the ship to stop its jumping to other locations causing panic and destruction. The ship is protected by an electrical shield that cannot be penetrated. See, silly and stupid in trying to bomb it.

Nicholas Lea as Bill Gardner is the key to the resolution of this problem and he does a fine job. Gardner was the Navy Lieutenant aboard the Eldridge when it started jumping from location to location. Nice to see Malcolm McDowell as Morton Salinger, one of the original scientists back in the 1940s ; and he is always a welcome sight in any movie. Ryan Robbins as Faulkner, the only sane, logical scientist who headed the experiment does an outstanding job in trying to do the right thing. Gina Holden as Kathryn Moore, the evil head of the contractors and she was totally evil (good job at it though). Emilie Ullerup as Molly, Bill Gardner's granddaughter, who uses a computer to help unravel Salinger's solution to the problem. And, then there is Michael Pare as Hagan, the contractor's hit man so to speak. Mr. Pare was one of the stars in the original 1984 movie of the same title, but in here he is a bad guy. Bummer.

The pacing is just right and the acting performances of all is quite good.

Oh, just so you know, hoax or not, the government gave the Eldridge to the Greek Royal Navy and its new designation is: HNS Leon D-54 . Hey, I looked it up.

You may enjoy the scene at the end when Molly enters her house and asks if anyone is home. (7/10)

Violence: Yes. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Language: No.

This was very solid for a SciFi Original. Actually, one of the best I've seen in quite some time.

Sure, the characters were one-dimensional and the plot made no sense, but did you really expect an Award-winning performance here? The movie was fast-paced, with some good special effects (the ship landing on top of a skyscraper was particularly effective) and soundtrack was kick-ass. It never got boring or tedious and I was curious to see how it would all end.

I have no clue whether this was a remake or a sequel to the original 1984 movie. And honestly, I don't care. I just watched it on its own and try to judge it as a standalone product. And as such, it was worth those 90 minutes of my life.

Michael Pare from a great original movie, now returns as psychotic killer, simply to bring familiar name; decision intelligent, as bringing Charlie Sheen in Wall Street 2.

Military "liaison" in high heels and posh bag, absolutely atrocious superficiality in every segment. Everyone is overdressed, almost as looking at advert for cosmetic products.

Typical technology-rules-over-the-script movie making while occasional good casting is destroyed, both with direction and execution. The first movie was made for a wide audience, this one has (like almost every movie made today) been targeting 15-25 demographics, anyone older is welcomed, but these are the primary subjects for shallow values brought in dumbing down Humanity - Experiment II.

Some films just shouldn't be re-made, however Hollywood seldom agrees with that statement. In the case of the Philadelphia Experiment, there was oddly a consensus not to remake it. For almost a decade, people tried and failed to get it done. After almost every star and major film company rejected them, the re-make came out in 2012, as a direct-to-video feature, with a much smaller budget and a cast that just left people scratching their heads. For those unfamiliar with the story, The Philadelphia Experiment was a military operation, intended to transport matter, much in the same way as they do on Star Trek. It was first attempted in the 1940s and failed, as a ship was lost with all hands on board. In 1984, a private contractor attempts to revive the project and the ship, with one surviving crewman, miraculously returned. I always found this to be a clever story and I enjoyed the original, but to do a b-movie remake of the film was just ridiculous. For starters, the special effects in this film were worse than the ones they had in 1984, and they couldn't get anyone to star in this thing. Aside from Malcolm McDowell, who I'm convinced will do anything for a check, the cast is nothing more than a bunch of TV show extras, literally. Nicolas Lea, surprisingly does a very good job with the lead role, but what's one good performance, when combined with an inexperienced cast and no budget? For what it was, the re-make of the Philadelphia Experiment wasn't as bad as it could have been, mainly due to Nicolas Lea, but it certainly fails to live up to the original in every way possible.

This movie is something that you want to enjoy when there's nothing better to do.

Terribly poor plot. There is of course the rising action, the climax and the ending. The movie started nicely, but the plot became terrible afterwards.

Absolutely flat characters. This does not need to be said. The good guys were good guys from start to finish, which is okay, in a way. But the antagonist is the absolute bad guy (girl) from start to finish, even not even learning from earlier mistake, yet making an even bigger mistake. That is stupidity. I wonder if the scriptwriter is a 12 year old boy who watched the original Philadelphia Experiment and is related to the producer.

Extreme government idiocy at its absolute impossibility. Okay, so cluster bombs don't work, it magnifies the destruction 10 times greater, destroying the strike crafts and causes it to teleport above a nuclear reactor, destroying a whole area while dealing not a single scratch on the ship. So then, you ordered a nuclear bomb to be dropped on the shielded ship instead, totally ignoring the fact that the destruction will be amplified 10 times greater.

What, the government has no problem destroying the whole United States and Canada/Mexico? She is a high ranked employee of a defense contractor company with direct phoneline to the President of the USA. A person like that does not get that position and that level of trust if she is stupid and illogical. There is a difference between bullheaded and illogical, this is stupidity. What's more stupid is the scriptwriter who made everyone else feel stupid.

All in all, this is more entertaining than most, but still a terrible movie. The only reason that I'm giving it a 3, is because I like the acting and the pacing of the movie. Everything else sucks. If you're thinking of having some brainless fun, sure, go for it.

Leave your brain at the door.

An experiment goes haywire in Philadelphia, causing a ship from World War II to appear on a runway west of the city. A man from the past, navy officer Nicholas Lea (as Bill Gardner) gets off the boat and tries to figure out what has happened. Arriving to investigate, handsome sheriff's deputy John Reardon (as Carl Reed) gets on the ship and it disappears. We remain in the present, with Mr. Lea. He meets Mr. Reardon's beautifully-shaped blonde girlfriend Emilie Ullerup (as Molly Gardner); they have a startling connection...

Paul Ziller and his crew's lower-budget re-make of "The Philadelphia Experiment" (1984) is pretty good for the first 30 minutes, but the story begins to drag and the script begins to sag. Although they add stylish good looks, scientists Ryan Robbins and Gina Holden pad the story like refuges from a modeling agency. Later in the running time, Michael Pare (as Hagan) provides a lift. Malcolm McDowell has a small role. It would have been cool if Mr. Pare played the same character as he played in the 1984 movie, but promoted to some sort of Time Cop.

**** The Philadelphia Experiment (7/28/12) Paul Ziller ~ Nicholas Lea, Emilie Ullerup, Michael Pare, Ryan Robbins

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.

First of all this is not a remake.Not sure why they called it The Philadelphia Experiment.It's the same idea but a different story.Not all that bad of a movie but not all that good either.Surprisingly the special effects are no better then the original but on par with every other SYFY original movie,in other words HORRIBLE.You would think at the very least the effects should be better.You would think they would use Michael Paré to tie into the original story but, no.This could have and should have been better........Lets just hope they don't remake Eddie and the Cruisers.......but sadly that might happen since Hollywood has no original ideas anymore and just does remakes...at the very least have special effect that don't look like they were the made on someones laptop fresh out of high school

There is still a chance that the Fortean/UFO/Paranormal Community will see a Movie based on the controversial claims about a Naval Experiment in the 1940's to render a Ship invisible to Radar. It is rife with Colorful Characters with Names like Einstein and Tesla inserted into the Lore. There are elements like Time Travel, Invisibility, and Scientific Parlance like Unified Field Theories and Space Time Continuum to spice things up.

Books have been Written and Talk Radio has had its share of Researchers, Witnesses, and Believers making various claims and tweaking Imaginations. So the Mythology is Rich and just waiting for someone to climb aboard and do it Justice.

So far the 1984 Movie of the same Name is an Entertaining piece of Fluff that is a Fun if Flawed Film. This one is not as good but contains enough of the Story to make it a bit Mystifying but is sunk by its lack of Intelligence and contains only a smidgen of connection to the "Real Life" Experiment. It relies on shoot em ups and is heavy on the Government cliché, lets stop this by blowing things up and if conventional Weapons fail, bring on the Mini-Nukes.

Maybe worth a view but this is a Made for TV Movie that wastes a lot of Money on a lot of Hooey and is another one of those Syfy Originals that continues to embarrass the Network and their Name is almost synonymous with the foregone conclusion of Mediocrity.

A group of scientists trying to create a cloaking device accidentally conjure up the USS Eldridge, a ship that disappeared in 1943. Now their only priority is to send it back.

While I did not see the 1980s version of this story, I am familiar with what allegedly happened in real life. I think this is a fine plot of what could have happened, even if it does not necessarily make logical sense.

Director Paul Ziller is SyFy's go-to guy and has made quite a few of their productions now, with varying degrees of success. I feel like Ziller really has a handle on how to make a low-budget science fiction film, as he has the formula down. The weakest part is always the special effects (the computer-generated effects), which are out of his control.

Of course, this film also suffers from having Emilie Ullerup, one of the worst actresses in the history of the universe. Her character is a bit hard to believe (a world-class hacker working as a waitress in a small town diner), but even if we accept that, Ullerup just kept overacting repeatedly. I felt no sympathy for her and think the film would have been much better if her scenes were just cut out completely.

And why did the police officer wear jeans?