Sign up
Search
Advanced search settings

Search only in certain items:

Search results
All (3530)
Content
People
Apps
Books
Orbs
Movies
Music
Podcasts
Shows
Tabletop Games
Tech
TV
Video Games
YouTube Channels
Videos
40x40

Bob Mann (459 KP) rated Star Trek V - The Final Frontier (1989) in Movies

Sep 28, 2021  
Star Trek V - The Final Frontier (1989)
Star Trek V - The Final Frontier (1989)
1989 | Action, Sci-Fi
3
6.2 (25 Ratings)
Movie Rating Watch
What do you get if you put a famously egocentric star at the helm of a major motion picture? Star Trek V is the answer.

My least favourite movie of the entire franchise. There is just so much that is lame about this flick:

the 57 year-old Nichelle Nichols doing a naked veil dance on top of a sand dune (I suppose they at least got her to do something other than repeating the computer, to quote a “Galaxy Quest” gag);
Scotty knocking himself out on his own ship;
the line “What does God need with a starship?”;
“Row, row, row the boat”;
“marshmelons” (uncorrected, and unexplained in the script);
…. (I could go on).
Even the fight sequences seem lifeless and lacklustre.

Perhaps the lamest element of all is the final defeat of God (not God?). Chekov says that ‘He’ has “the largest energy source he’s ever seen”: and yet ‘He’ is dispatched via a simple laser blast!! #anticlimax.

The cast seem to be going through the motions as well on this one. That sense of “fun” was missing from the performances for me. Bizarrely the class act that is David Warner gets a “starring” role but is woefully underused, getting about 5 lines in total. He is totally superfluous to the plot.

The whole thing smells of utter desperation. If only we could get Nicholas Meyer back to direct another one: perhaps we could regenerate some of the “Khan” magic?