Wednesday, 17 October 2012

Kirk's direction


Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)

Directed by William Shatner who also provided the story for and stars in this film it also features Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelly. After some diplomats are held hostage the USS Enterprise and her crew are sent to investigate.

This film is one of the more maligned entries in the franchise but despite that the story raises some interesting questions and ventures into pretty anti religious territory for a Hollywood film. The problems with this film all stem from the special effects just not being able to live up to Shatner's vision for the film which is a real shame as the opening sequence in particular showed a lot of promise. Ultimately this film is not as bad as some would have you believe but is no where near as good as it could have been due to poor execution.

3/5

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