Running Against Time (1990 TV Movie)
5/10
Pretty interesting plot but poor execution
1 July 2004
Warning: Spoilers
Professor David Rhodes (Robert Hays) lost his older brother to the Vietnam War in 1966. When he hears that a famous professor is working on a time machine, he persuades the scientist to allow him to travel back in time and correct history, by saving the life of President Kennedy and therefore (somehow) preventing the war in Vietnam.

I'm not sure any scientist would allow a man to try to do something like this -- as we learned in BACK TO THE FUTURE it can create confusin' paradoxes. But he does. Hays ("Airplane!") looks bored most of the time; "7th Heaven's" Catherine Hicks plays giddy love interest. She's bubbly and annoying.

Overall this is an intriguing idea but poor, poor execution -- typical made-for-TV-movie junk.
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