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Summary: Excellent movie
Review: What makes this movie great is the conflict betwenn Kirk and Khan and the fact that it's a sequel to an episode of the show. Cool stuff.
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Summary: The perfect Trek film.
Review: The even movies in this series are the "real" Trek movies. ST4 had the whales. ST6 had the last of the old crew. ST8 had the Borg, ST10 had the Romulans and a clone. But ST2, ah ST2, that had Ricardo Mantalban giving William Shatner's scene chewing a run for it's money.In fact, Shatner is relatively subdued for the better part of the movie. His Captain Kirk is feeling his age and faced with an estranged son that would prefer to remain estranged. Lost love and missed opportunities, and a tight reign from director Nicholas Meyer (Time After Time, ST6), help keep Shatner in check. Also marks the screen debut of Kirstie Alley as Lt. Saavik. The DVD package is put together very well. Once Paramount decided to start doing a good job with DVD special editions. They took it all the way to the bank.
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Summary: Best Trek movie
Review: This is the movie that, done on a shoestring budget, salvaged the Star Trek movie series. The original cast is reunited under now Admiral James T. Kirk as they take a shipload of cadets out on a routine training mission. Unknown to Kirk, his old enemy Khan (as well played by Ricardo Montalban and first seen in the original 1960's episode "Space Seed") has escaped from the desolated planet Seti Alpha Five and vowed to have his vengeance. Their bitter battle carries them across the galaxy, involves a reunion with Kirk's long lost son, and involves Project Genesis: an experiment with the potential for great good or unparalleled destruction. What ensues is non-stop action and a classic Star Trek adventure. This is easily one of the top Star Trek films ever made, and my personal favorite. It combines everything that made the original series so beloved, such as a well drawn out plot, great character development, humor, and of course, exceptional space combat featuring the U.S.S. Enterprise. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and Deforest Kelley (Kirk, Spock, McCoy) are the big three, and their interaction really makes the film. Also of note is newcomer Kirstie Alley as Saavik in what would prove to be her breakout role. This directors cut (ooh la la extra scenes and commentary) of a great sci-fi movie is a must have for Trekkies everywhere.
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Summary: Classic Star Trek
Review: This is the movie I've watched the most times in my life. It is the best tribute to the original series althought the first one is a much better movie. We have passed from an extraordinary Star Trek film to a Great Captain Kirk movie. It is great Sci-Fi, wonderful visual effects, superb action scenes, amazing story telling, profound character devellopment and stupendous Star Trek.
To me it is the 3rd best Trek movie of the series.
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Summary: The Best Of The Classic "Star Trek" Movies
Review: Many - both Star Trek fans and others - regard "Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan" as the finest in the "Star Trek" film franchise. Nicholas Meyer crafted an exciting tale that remains true to the spirit of "Star Trek", paying homage to C. S. Forrester's "Hornblower" saga as well as Gene Roddenberry's vision. This edition restores scenes that were cut from the theatrical release, adding additional depth to the characters of Kirk, Spock, and especially, Scotty. The film works not only as a great episode of "Star Trek", but also as a fine science fiction film and military thriller. Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner) realizes that he is getting old, after watching a group of cadets lose the "Kobayashi Maru" scenario which he unexpectedly passed as a Starfleet Academy cadet. He decides to take one last voyage on the USS Enterprise, now a training vessel commanded by Captain Spock (Leonard Nimoy), in the company of other old friends such as Dr. Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley), Chief Engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott (James Doohan), Commander Sulu (George Takei) and Commander Uhura (Nichelle Nichols). Meanwhile the USS Reliant commanded by Captain Clark Terrell (Paul Winfield) - with Commander Pavel Chekhov (Walter Koenig) as Terrell's first officer - is on a top-secret classified mission, surveying the Ceti Alpha solar system, as a possible testing site for Starfleet's secret Genesis Device. Soon the two Starfleet officers are captured by a group of humans led by the enigmatic, manical Khan Noonian Singh (Ricardo Montalban). Khan abducts the Reliant, and proceeds to the secret Starfleet base Regula I, where Kirk's old flame (Bibi Besch) is supervising the construction of the Genesis Device, setting the stage for a classic, fateful confrontation with Admiral Kirk and the Enterprise crew. This splendid film is a sequel to the classic "Star Trek" episode "Space Seed" which introduced Khan to "Star Trek" audiences as among the original series' most intelligent, most charismatic villains. In addition to excellent performances from Nimoy, Shatner and Montalban, it is noteworthy as the film debut of Kirstie Alley in the role of the Vulcan/Romulan lieutenant Saavik. James Horner also contributed the first of many excellent film scores to this movie, giving a vast, nautical grandeur befitting a cinematic "Hornblower in Space".
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Summary: Very good, but not the best.
Review: For being so many people's favorite Star Trek, I don't see what all the fuss is about. 'Wrath of Khan' is INFINITELY better than the original movie, and it's very neat how they took a TV show plot and turned it into a film. Overall, this is an above-average movie, with some excitement, some twists and turns, and a very surprising and sad end. Khan does a great job acting (Though the open vest suit leaves a little to be desired...). 'Wrath of Khan' is definitely a classic Sci-Fi movie.
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Summary: Now this is How a Star Trek Movie is Done
Review: To this day, "Star Trek ll: The Wrath of Khan" is still the best Star Trek movie ever made, thanks to superb direction by Nicholas Meyer, Richard Montalban's masterful performance as the revenge-filled Khan and a script that is intellectual, but never delves into the world of dweebiness. Director Meyer had to win over a lot of jaded trekkies after the first Star Trek movie sharply divided them into two camps: those that liked the movie and those that did not. However, Meyer fought through the muck not only to reunite the trekkies, but also impress and win-over many non-treksters as well with a mix of imaginative special effects, gripping suspense while never losing people with over-elaborate dialouge or indulging in techno-dweeb fascinations. All this works to move an intricate plot, which in a nutshell is a being with superior intelligence named Khan (An inspired, gleefully maniacal Richard Montalban who gives the movies' best performance) who was imprisoned by Captain Kirk (William Shatner) years ago on a desolate, deserted planet. Khan escapes seeking revenge on Kirk as well as getting his hands on the Genesis device, a machine that can basically turn lifeless matter in to something that can sustain life (imagine a moon and turning into a living planet). Kirk runs across Khan while training a new crew for the Enterprise and their battle of wits and weaponry insues. Caught in the middle between Kirk and Khan is the team that created Genesis, which includes Kirk's son and former lover. Meyer skillfully builds the movie to its unbearably suspenseful climax in which Khan and Kirk are hunting each other in a nebula, blinded by the forces within the nebula itself. A skillful blend of action, suspense and tragedy, "Star Trek ll: The Wrath of Khan" is an amazing cinematic milestone. Not only is it easily one of the best science-fiction films ever made, it deserves to be on the same bench as "The Day the Earth Stood Still," the original "Star Wars" trilogy and "The Matrix."
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Summary: Revenge is a dish best served cold.
Review: MY REVIEW. Rank #1 of 10. A sequel to a TV episode. How often does a bad movie have a sequel that is a vast improvement over the first movie. Well it happened here. In fact the second ST movie is my number 1 ST movie ever, though first contact was a temping alternate choice. But, if WOK had been a second dude, would that have been the end of star trek? I am glad we will never know. Shatner is great in this and Montalban may have had his best role as khan in this movie. We also learn the secret of kirks success in 'cheating' death. He CHEATS DEATH by the book.
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Summary: Perhaps the most overrated of the series
Review: After being blown away by the sheer size and scope of Star Trek:The Motion Picture (yeah I loved it), this film was a step downward in quality. Yes this film "moves along" faster than Star Trek I. Yes, it has more action sequences than Star Trek I. What it did not have is the sense of wonder that came with the fascinating story in Star Trek I. Add to that the incredibly cheesy acting (especially Ricardo Montalban's performance who has mastered the art of the big sigh as an acting tool. Yawn) and you have a decent film, but not a great film. Ok, so I am in the minority here probably with this opinion, but hey I'm used to that. My recommendation is to watch this film and see for yourself. I feel that Star Trek IV is better than this one (very light hearted, more on the human side) Star Trek I is still king in my book.
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Summary: They Got It Right This Time
Review: Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan is a welcome introduction of the Star Trek TV show to the movies. It is not a special effects bore of a movie, without any elements of what made the Star Trek TV show great. In other words, with Star Trek II, they got it right this time. Instead of creating a movie that had little to do with Star Trek, this movie embraces the TV show as having plenty of interesting characters and material to use for this movie. This story jumps right into the adventure. The USS Reliant has stumbled upon a life form on Ceti Alpha VI, which would disqualify it as a possible candidate for Project Genesis. Chekov and his captain beam down to the planet surface to find out what the life form is. It turns out to be Khan and surviving members of his family, left there originally by Captain Kirk in the Star Trek episode titled "Space Seed". Ceti Alpha VI, is actually Ceti Alpha V, which has been rendered an inhospitable world since Ceti Alpha VI disintegrated. Khan is out for revenge, and he takes control of the USS Reliant and goes after the Enterprise. What made this movie great was that we finally get to actually see impressive computer graphics aboard the ships, instead of a blue light emitting from a view finder that Mr. Spock looked into occasionally on the TV series. The look and and feel of this movie is very practical. In the director's commentary, Nicholas Meyer said that he saw Star Trek as the Adventures of Horatio Hornblower in Outer Space. The ending is probably the most suspenseful of any Star Trek movie, or TV show for that matter. It was good to see that Star Trek finally got a movie treatment that it deserved.
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