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In this second Star Trek feature (1982), the crew of the Enterprise confronts middle age in a plot that makes very little literal sense but is packed with pertinent life-out-of-death, Waste Land imagery: a 200-year-old heavy (Ricardo Montalban) living on a barren planet, a secret project code-named “Genesis” that can turn deserts into tropical jungles, Captain Kirk wearing specs and rediscovering his long-lost family. If only director Nicholas Meyer had grasped the implications of his tale more fully and enthusiastically, this might have become a classic piece of cornball SF poetry, but as it stands the tepid acting and one-set claustrophobia take a heavy toll. With William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, and Paul Winfield. PG, 113 min. By Dave Kehr

Sorry there are no showtimes for Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan on Saturday, November 7.

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I'm not really sure why you're now posting a review of a 27 year old star trek movie, and I can't quite understand how you could have watched this film and the rest of the movies in the series (as you, quite idiotically, judge the film by the series, and not its own merits) and come to these conclusions, and I have no idea why you talk about it having "one-set claustrophobia" when it has a fairly ordinary amount of sets (three different planets, three starship bridges, and a space station) but the font you chose to express yourself with is just fine. It's clear and easily read.

Honestly, every opinion uttered about this film seems not based in anything approaching reality, and I can only imagine it a kneejerk response to something the author had already decided he hated before he ever watched the movie. Maybe it's star trek, maybe it's scifi in general, I don't really know, but this is one of the worst reviews I've ever read for any movie.

Posted by BobSmith on October 13, 2009 at 10:48 AM | Report this comment

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