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Summary: The best of the Trek movies
Review: This movie has it all. Even First Contact, which many believe to be the best TNG movie, only had one short (but very cool) battle between ships. After that it was all tension within the ship. This movie is action-packed from beginning to end. It starts off with heart-warming and appropriately humorous interactions between the regular characters and has some cameos from cast members you don't normally see in the films. But it gets right down to some intriguing plot developments and some great fights. The director really gets back to some of the basics of great space battles from Wrath of KahnIf you're a Trek fan, don't miss the opportunity to see this on the big screen.
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Summary: Runs like a two hour TV special
Review: If you are looking for an epical film you will be dissapointed (Try the Two Towers).I saw the movie the other day and it was not that bad. But this film looks basically much like a two hour star trek special you would see on TV, but that is not a bad thing. But I really hoped that they would make an epical film. Plus if you did not watch the Tv series then you will hate this movie. CAUTION SPOILERS One more thing the way this movie ended shocked me. It is worth a look SPOILERS END So if you are a Star Trek Fan than you will like this film if you are not a fan then you will hate this film. Hopes this review helped
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Summary: This is the end?
Review: Okay, there are SPOILERS in this review, though I'm sure all the fanatics know what's going to happen based on the previous reviews. The promotional campaign seems to indicate that this will be the final 'Next Generation' movie, and events in the movie seem to mark this as the end -- Riker leaves the Enterprise for his own command, and another important character apparently dies (I'll preserve the mystery for those who still don't know), although they leave things open-ended enough for a reunion to occur. If it is the end (and I can't see them continuing the movie series with 'Voyager', 'Deep Space 9', and certainly not 'Enterprise' characters) it's a rather disappointing one. Like nearly all Star Trek movies since 'The Wrath of Khan', the science fiction element of the show takes a back seat to space battles and action/adventure. This movie takes that trend to an extreme. There is very little in the way of plot, and the classic Star Trek sense of adventure, exploration, and reaching out to alien races and ideas is replaced by the 'good guys' shooting ugly aliens. The fight between Riker and a Reman in a Jeffries tube at one point in the movie seems particularly pointless and gratuitous violence, with no real connection to the story. I don't think the script for this movie would ever have even been considered for an episode of the T.V. series. Basically, this is dumbed-down Star Trek for the masses. On the positive side, the 'Next Generation' crew still works together well -- the character chemistry is still there, and there are some fun moments shared between the crew. Fans of Geordi LaForge's character might be disappointed by his limited role in this movie, though. And if this is the best they can give us after four years or so, maybe it's best that this is the end.
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Summary: Star Trek?..... Is that what this was supposed to be?
Review: Star Trek The Next Generation began 15 years ago, I've watched it ever since. I've seen all TNG films, and loved them. I've purchased all of the Star Trek TNG DVD boxed sets....point is, I'm a fan. A big fan. Not a 'trekkie', just a fan. ****very minor spoilers****
And yet, after seeing "Nemesis" I feel as though I wasn't watching a Star Trek movie. It seems more like director Stuart Baird was trying to make a "film" out of a franchise that though it can have fine moral lessons and great acting, is still just based on the TV show. Meaning that Mr. Baird, and the writers of this film have made Nemesis into something more, and in that, something less than what Star Trek is supposed to be.
For example, when traveling down to a planet where the Enterprise crew has monitored a strange signal, we are subjected to terrible over-direction. Much like Steven Soderberg did with Traffic in the Mexico scenes, Baird seems to have "turned up" the color red to give the film a more desert-like feel. When in an away-team mission has the crew ever visited a planet that gave cause for a director to use color-techniques to distort the appearance of the film?? This technique when used in other films, works just fine (see other Steven Soderberg or David Fincher films). For Star Trek, the technique is not only pointless, but ineffective and distracting. Star Trek always has had a very clear look. Away-Team missions are magical and clean. This however, was nothing close to magical.
Actor/Director Johnathan Frakes, who plays Commander Riker, directed both First Contact and Insurrection--the 2nd and 3rd NG movies. He, though talented in directing Star Trek episodes and movies in the past, could not have saved this film. The plot contradicted itself, and at some points went against everthing the Star Trek TNG fan has learned to be important to the characters.
For Example, in one of the first scenes--the desert-planet scene--Picard, Data and Worf travel to a planet to pick up various pieces of an android. They take a shuttle down to the planet, and are driving around in a dune-buggie (what? a dune buggy in Star Trek?) picking up arms and legs of a Data simulacrum. Suddenly, the pre-industrial natives to the planet show up and there is a large chase/fight scene. The Enterprise crew escapes by jumping off of a cliff into a hovering shuttle. This scene could have been cool if there wasn't such a disregard for the Prime Directive... The away team flies away into space while the pre-industrial civilization watches. THIS IS NEVER MENTIONED AGAIN LATER IN THE FILM!!! The Prime Directive was the moral issure discussed in SO MANY episodes, and movies! Are we supposed to believe that Picard and his crew would just forget about it?
There's about a million small problems with this film, and one big one.... The big one being the ending. Someone important dies. And then, abruptly, the movie ends. Leaving the viewer feeling robbed of the last two hours.
As an avid film buff (see my Listmania lists on Amazon.com), and Star Trek The Next Generation fan, I can honoestly say this movie was disorganized, and un-thought-out trash. Filled with uninspired action, off-character performances, and a pointlessly hole-filled plotline, Nemesis was the worst Star Trek film since Shatner decided to direct Part V.
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Summary: You have GOT to be KIDDING ME! Make it Stop!!!!
Review: If you are thinking of going to the movie - DONT!!!
Who am I? I'm a 26 y.o. trek geek girl...Not totally hardcore... I don't have any schematics on my wall and I haven't been inspired to collect any action figures (yet ;) But, the Star Trek Universe is a very MAJOR part of my life so I take it seriously when "they" start messing around with this Universe in substantial ways. This movie could not decide what it wanted to be. The pacing was awkward and choppy, the dialogue vaccuous, and the Romulans weren't much more than a marginalized plot device - the big scarey arch enemy is a human clone! Arghhh! There is SO MUCH to hate about this movie. But, I will cut to the chase and tell you the No. 1 reason to avoid it like the plague: --------Spoilers Ahead--------
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--------Spoilers Ahead-------- Data is killed. Dead. Gone. Vaporized. No way to retrieve him miraculously at the last second. This is the denouement of all weakly plotted stories - Kill Someone Important to Make it Exciting. Don't get me wrong - I understand that people die. Good people. It happens in life (my sister is dead). But to kill a powerful and loved character simply because they couldn't think of anything else to make the story climactic? Feeble. Flaccid. Impuissant. And WHY does Data die? Because the Courageous Captain Picard who has faced down the Borg, Q, the Crystaline Entity, Lore, etc. etc. has suddenly became pusillanimous. With his bare hands, He can rip a data chip out of a borg drone that used to be one of his crew, but he suddenly turns into an indecisive, dottering old fool when he faces his "big scarey-warey clone"? That's another thing, the philosophical pretentions in this movie were rather unbearable. Every last cultural fear of cloning was pandered to. Oh, and did I mention that Picard, Riker, and Worf are all througly emasculated in this movie? I could go on and on with what I hated about this movie: the Remans - how many times are they going to make alien makeup a variation on the same theme? Shinzon's costume was strictly 80's rehash. The long-awaited wedding sequence was non-existant - instead we get a long-winded speech by Picard at the reception, Data does Irving Berlin, Worf has a hangover and whines about it in a most unwarriorly fashion (you'd think with all the Blood Wine he has downed, he could hold his liquour a little better), Guynan makes a weak quip, and latter on we get a totally unflattering sexual moment between Riker and Deanna during which she is mind-raped by Shinzon and his Viceroy. So it's not bad enough that we get the second major plot device of all weak stories - Kill a Loved Character, but we also get the Biggest, the suggestion of violent and forcible sex. As if all that isn't bad enough, the writer's expect us to find consolation in the fact that Data isn't really gone. His reset button has just been hit. Capt. Picard isnt the only one facing a clone in this story. Data also has a dopleganger! Yippie... and gosh, he can't help it if he doesn't have enough positronic connections to become a real Boy! "But look! He has potential!" And lest I forget, what was with the desert dune buggy nonesense a'la Mad Max and Steel Dawn? Anyway, I clearly have degenerated into pure ranting at this point. I shall update this review when I feel more cogent. Suffice to say, the movie is Weak weak weak weak weak WEAK! A total travesty and a complete waste of film.. ***** Okay, teenie confession, the Scimitar WAS cool. BUT, we never even get to see it's Thaeleron (sp?) Radiation weapon used. How anticlimactic! ARGHHHH!!... Bottom Line, this film does NOT exist in my trek cannon - officially sanctioned or not. What a disappointing approximation of a real TNG movie!
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Summary: Worst Trek EVER!!
Review: The central theme of this one seemed to be to strive to be a better man. Picard, at one point, relays this moral lesson to his clone who is bent on destroying the Federation to satisfy his own personal demons. Picard's message should have been directed towards the producers, writer, and director to strive to make a better film. Has Star Trek, I wonder, suffered from severe overkill and attrition with TNG, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise, comic books, books, conventions, geeks that dress up in Federation regalla, and not to mention 10 films(the first SIX of which are excellent especially TREK IV-Voyage Home)? The trend of how the even films are superior was broken with this installment. I will continue, however, to rock on with my personal favorite Voyage Home. I was ten years old in 1979 when Star Trek-TMP premiered, and that one actually aged like wine. I think this one will age like vinegar.BRING ON STAR WARS EPISODE III! By the way, the only reason I did not give this one 1 star was that the effects and sound were redeeming enough not to place it in a category with other 1-star failures like Heaven's Gate!
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Summary: if it ain't broke, dont fix it
Review: If it is indeed the last voyage for this crew, it was good to see them play it safe and go with a formula that works. There are crucial elements borrowed from the Wrath of Khan, but it could be viewed as hommage to that film, and an even further heightening for TWOK as a film that set a standard or formula to be followed. There are definitely original moments that make it all worth it despite the TWOK borrowing, it's very well assembled and it looks fantastic.
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Summary: Goodbye
Review: Before I went in to take a look at the latest Trek-flick, I was both excited and somewhat down. Although I found the trailers to be a tantalizing tease, my anticipation level dropped a notch when I heard the news that the flick's main heavy is cloned from Picard's DNA. When I caught wind of this development, I rolled my eyes and though to myself, "Oh great... Star Trek is tryin' to take away some of Star Wars' thunder with this Picard-clone gimmick! How freakin' hokey can ya get?!" But I subsequently calmed down, realizing that Star Trek and Star Wars have been stealing each others' ideas since forever (see my "Star Wars Vs. Star Trek: Coincidences & Mutual Rip-Offs" Listmania list for more examples of this cross-borrowing). I subsequently bummed myself out on the news that Wussley-- whoops, I mean Wesley Crusher was gonna make a cameo appearance in the movie. With my luck, his little moment will happen at the climax, where he single-handedly saves the day-again! With these developments (along with the always-ominous Friday the 13th opening date) joining forces to potentially turn Nemesis into the biggest bombaroo since 'The Final Frontier', I headed into the darkened MultiPlex™, sat down, braved the theatrical trailers that over-hyped the Summer 2003 releases, and waited for the opening credits to start up... At the end of the whole deal, I liked what I'd seen but I wasn't exactly overwhelmed with excitement. It was a fair sight better than its odd-numbered cinematic NextGen brethren, but it didn't quite stack up to First Contact. And like its fellow NextGen mo-pics, it played more like a glorified TV episode than it did a big cinematic adventure. It would've been a classic two-part cliffhanger on the tube, but otherwise it just seemed a bit too small for the silver screen. Several references to past NextGen TV eppies didn't help matters much, either. Where's Harve Bennett when Paramount needs him most? The black-hat heavy in this go-'round had some pretty good moments of arrogant posturing, especially when facing the man who made him possible. As you'd expect, Shinzon & Picard's back-and-forth patter revolved around how their similarities in personality and reactions came to be via their common genealogy. You know, the kinda philosophical and ethical stuff that's become a hallmark in Star Trek. But despite all of the banter and malice, I'd hardly place Shinzon in the company of Khan or the Borg Queen like the flick's publicists were stating in Paramount's press releases. I'll give him the honor of being cooler than Kruge (III), Ru'Afo (Insurrection), and Soran (Generations)... Then there's the climactic ship-to-ship nebula battle that is reminiscent of The Wrath of Khan's infamous tete-a-tete, albeit extended to a greater degree here. Other moments in this movie that scribe John Logan apparently lifted from previous Trek-flicks include: - The tried-and-true 'Vengeance-Seeking-Madman-Armed-With-An-Ultimate-Weapon-Of-Mass-Destruction' premise, as seen in The Wrath of Khan; - A scene featuring Riker in a tough spot that echoed the "Kirk on the collapsing bridge" scene from Generations; - A sequence depicting the Enterprise in a space dry dock that looked like it was Xeroxed from Star Trek The Motion Picture (right down to the music, even!); - A way-too-convenient way to... er, no I'd best not disclose this particular plot gimmick, as it'll give away a bit too much. Let's just say it's very similar to a certain plot gimmick that bridged The Wrath of Khan and The Search for Spock together... - And if you're really observant, you'll also notice bits filched from the original Star Wars movie (no real surprise there) and Independence Day! Aside from lapses in originality, there's also the whole effort by the NextGen film franchise to make Picard more of an action-oriented leader in the mold of Captain Kirk. Here he gets his kicks driving a Starfleet-issue dune buggy over rough desert terrain at high velocity, and going down on away missions over the objections of his executive officer. Jean-Luc has also become a bit more spontaneous and less stodgy, which is apparent when he does his toast at Riker and Troi's wedding reception. To me, his efforts to be more of a hands-on C.O. doesn't quite fit the persona he'd established during the TV show's run, and it just seems forced at times. Of course, when your second-most-famous role involves training mutants to use their powers for good whilst sitting in a high-tech wheelchair, I guess a little more action could be seen as a welcome thing... As for the Wussley cameo: he does make a brief appearance at Riker & Troi's wedding reception, but thankfully wasn't given any lines to speak. But the weird thing is, he's wearing a Starfleet dress uniform in the scene! Oh no, don't tell me he decided to continue pursuing a career in Starfleet?! Sheesh, talk about a total downer! As if that one dealy which I'll not disclose at the movie's climax didn't bum me out enough... 'Late
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Summary: Echoes of Khan
Review: First and formost this is a good entertaining film. A little above par to most Star Trek films. See it. You're going to have fun, but if you Star Trek fans feel like you've seen it before that's because you have.
Nemisis slavishly follows the Wrath of Khan formula to a degree that boggles the mind.
The similarities are almost too numerous to count, but I'm going to try anyway.
One, self sacrafise of a major character with potential for reincarnation of a sort.
Two, ship to ship battle in a conveniently placed area of irregular space.
Three, secret communication between captain and crew as he says one thing and does another.
Four, presence of a planet destroying device.
Five, personal vendetta between captain and villian.
To go on might reveal the story and that's not my intention.
If you think I'm panning this film please see that I gave it 4 stars.
While it lacks the originality and humor of Star Trek 4 and the whimiscal joy of Star Trek 6, it does have the grudge match intensity of Star Trek 2. Which it should, since it has Star Trek 2's plot structure.
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Summary: Some cool stuff, but it's a relatively weak Trek flick
Review: I'm a pretty big Star Trek fan going back to the original series and all subsequent TV series and movies. The way the movies have gone, there are some strong ones like "Wrath of Kahn" and some weak ones like the one Shatner directed. Nemesis is one of the weaker ones, certainly the lesser of the Next Generation movies. There are some real swell special effects, and some fun scenes, but also some fairly major flaws. The scene where Picard and Data escape from the enemy ship is great (to describe it would give away part of the story). The space battle scenes are relatively cool -- although perhaps too much shield status reporting. ("The dorsal shield is at 30 percent!" "The starboard shield is down to ten percent!" et al) The threat to the Earth is never fully explained -- exactly why does the villain want to destroy the Earth? And the villain himself is poorly developed -- his relationship to Picard never really feels right. I'm definitely glad I saw this film, but it never really "engaged" me.
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