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Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan (Director's Edition)

Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan (Director's Edition)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best Star Trek Movie
Review: Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan is the best Trek movie ever. It has action, drama, and a great ending. For this Widescreen is definately needed, unless you think Widescreen is bad.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best Trek Movie Ever: Period.
Review: The Motion Sickness is the worst Star Trek film ever, it's amazing how the next one is the best Star Trek film ever. Star Trek II was everything the first film wasn't interesting, exciting and just plain great. Those who doubt Shatner's acting abilities should check this one out, becasue this is his best work ever. Montolban is also fantastic as a villian. From begining to end nothing goes wrong in this film. The Kirk family sub-plot is only given a few minutes and doesn't take away from the action. The ending is very strong and shows that Star Trek can still be very human in it's nature.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Thrilling!
Review: Critic accalmed as the best of the series,The Wrath of Khan puts Admirial Kirk against his mysterious long-lost enemy Khan,a geneticly altered late 20th century leader.Khan and his party are discovered when a small science team beams down to the wrong planet,and from their, a chain reaction is started.This second Startrek picture was the kind of excitingly familiar yet twistedly new film that fans of all ages were waiting for.A must have for any movie collector.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: any blue blooded vulcan would agree!
Review: this is the best movie i have ever seen. Admerial Kirk was brillian in fighting the evil Bork leader Khan. Khan was the original Bork seed in the series, and he returns with a vengence. "It is very cold in space..." is a line I use all the time. Spock's Blue Vulcan Blood flows bravely through this film, sadly his last in the series, I've heard. "Bones" McHoy was fun to watch too. A classic sci-fi movie and it makes me want to see the rest of the films someday too.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Start Here
Review: The Wrath of Khan is the best Star Trek movie to date. The success of this movie is greatly magnified by the flop that was Star Trek: The Movie. I'm fortunate that I saw this before seeing the original or I may have given up on the series completely.

This Star Trek movie brings back one of the villains from the show, Ricardo Montalban as Khan. Khan has been stranded on a desert planet by Kirk. When two members of Star Fleet, including Chekov, land on the planet, Khan uses the opportunity to escape and seek his revenge on Kirk.

I got the impression that the cast of Star Trek was really trying to make up for the failure of the original movie by putting everything they had into this one. The Wrath of Khan is darker and more violent than the typical Star Trek movie or show.

Ricardo Montalban plays a great villain as Khan. Even William Shatner gives a good performance as his usual over the top bravado is not so obvious or out of place in this movie. The supporting cast is really good as it hadn't yet got to the point where it was almost ridiculous to see such overweight beyond middle age men and women running around trying to save the universe.

Bottom line: start with this one in the Star Trek series and forget about Star Trek: The Movie.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Great fun and excitement.
Review: Movie sequels don't often do better than the original. But WRATH OF KHAN is a faster-paced action-adventure movie. Ricardo Montalban reprises his role of Khan, a 20th Century genetically-altered superman who moved to the 23rd Century via cryogenics. Khan failed to take over the Earth and is now trying to take over the galaxy.

Enter also David Marcus, the bastard child of Kirk. (You know this had to happen with Kirk sleeping around the way he did in the series) There's a lot of father/son tension that doesn't work here.

No, what makes this movie work are all the space battles. They really are exciting, but...That's not STAR TREK! STAR TREK was not about hardware and special effects. Strike Two to Paramount for still not realizing what the franchise really is.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Easily the best of the six
Review: This is easily the best of the six ST movies, with only ST VI coming close to it.

Excellent action and dialogue with some humorous moments mixed in. Ricardo Montalban reprises his role of Khan Noonian Singh from the episode "Space Seed" and does a very good job. (Interestingly, in this movie, Khan's full name is never mentioned. One can only assume that even back in 1982, political correctness dictated that the film's producers not give an evil villain such a clearly ethnic human name as "Singh" for fear of reprisal in the form of some protest by members of that ethnic group.)

Certainly, viewers who are familiar with "Space Seed" will more readily understand this movie, but the movie itself does very well as a stand-alone piece as well.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best of Trek
Review: Undoubtably the best Trek movie, The Wrath of Khan delivers not only the action and comedy that non-Trekkies require, but the thoughtful, mind-bending questions that true Trekkies relish... and, in the grand tradition of the very best of science fiction, the question of 'are we trying to play God?' is not given a definitive answer in the picture. It's left up to us to answer that question ourselves. After the closing credits roll on the best-written Trek ever, and one of Shatners few really good performances, we are left to think for ourselves. How many action movies do that? Very few that are not boring or preachy.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: fantastic
Review: This sequel is amazing. It's interesting, exiting with a great plot and great acting. Very beutiful ending, from spocks dramatic death to the visual views of the awakening planet of Genesis. Great. A must for all Star Trek fans to see this classick.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best of Trek on Film
Review: Star Trek II succeeds because, unlike the earlier Star Trek TMP, it goes back to the strengths of the original TV series. Star Trek has never been "hard" Sci-fi; it has always been at its best when it focuses on an attractive group of characters--Kirk, Spock, McCoy et al.

If you haven't seen it yet, Star Trek II builds on an episode from the TV series entitled "Space Seed," in which Kirk encounters a former dictator of Earth named Khan, defeats his attempt to hijack the Enterprise, and maroons him on a deserted planet. Some 15 years later, Khan escapes, gains control of another starship, the Reliant, and learns about the film's MacGuffin, the "Genesis" device, potentially a lethal superweapon. Once again, the Enterprise is "the only ship in the quadrant" available to deal with the crisis. Along the way Kirk discovers he has a son, and we also meet Lt. Saavik, a half-Vulcan protege of Spock's.

But the plotline is almost secondary. Star Trek II is really about how the characters, primarily Kirk and Spock, deal with growing old, and with "no-win" situations, and eventually with death. I've sometimes thought of it as sort of an outer space counterpart to Peckinpagh's "Ride the High Country."

The cast is great, especially Shatner and Nimoy, but also including Ricardo Montalban as Khan (reprising his guest role in the TV series) and Kirstie Alley making an impressive debut as Saavik. Nicholas Meyer directs ably, and James Horner's score is excellent.

Of the six movies centered around the original series Star Trek cast, I consider Star Trek II to be the best.


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