the philadelphia experiment take the intriguing idea of time travel forward and turn it into a routine and often silly thriller . michael pare and hot off eddie and the cruiser star a one of two wwii soldier that be time warp to present day ( 1984 ) and try to get back . when his buddy do go back pare seek him out in 1984 and when he find him the scene be so ridiculously write it kill the whole movie . not a chance would the friend act the way he do to his supposedly long lose buddy . it awkward and unintentionally funny which can be say for the whole film .