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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

Directed by Robert Wise this big budget adaptation of the television series stars William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelly. An unknown alien is heading towards Earth seemingly bent on destroying everything in it's path, the USS Enterprise is despatched to investigate.

Visually this film is stunning and the plot has some really interesting thematic depth to it when considering the creator/creation relationship and what it means to be human. Where the film has problems is that it lacks pace and action in comparison to more successful films in the franchise such as it's direct sequel. I do think however that this film does get treated overly harshly and if you can look past the slower pace this really is one of the more interesting sci-fi film's of it's period in terms of what it has to say.

5/5