Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:15
Rotten:15
Average Rating:5.7/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 23 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: In STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE, the original crew of the Starship Enterprise from the 1960s TV show is reunited in this dramatic, full-length science fiction epic. Admiral James T. Kirk (William... [More]
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Persis Khambatta, Stephen Collins
Director: Robert Wise
Reviews for Star Trek: The Motion Picture
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As an exploration of the loneliness of a unique machine consciousness, great! As an exciting SF experience, maybe not. Full Review |
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For non-addicts, the smart plot and effects go some way towards compensating for the plastic characters and costumes. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Nothing in this first Trek film moves above a glacial speed. Full Review |
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6/10 |
More of an event than a movie...more flash than content. Full Review |
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Nothing but a long day's journey into ennui. Full Review |
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2/4 |
If the endless interstellar vistas of 2001: A Space Odyssey tested your patience, Star Trek: The Motion Picture will make you cry like a little star child. Full Review |
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3/5 |
a little too boring Full Review |
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The expensive effects (under supervision of Douglas Trumbull) are the secret of this film, and the amazing wizardry throughout would appear to justify the whopping budget. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Director Robert Wise has no feeling for Trek's pop insouciance, and the movie unfolds ponderously. Full Review |
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This 1979 movie adaptation of the cult TV series is blandness raised to an epic scale. Full Review |
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2/5 |
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3.5/4 |
The long, majestic scene in which Scotty (James Doohan) takes Kirk in a shuttle toward the refurbished Enterprise is still breathtaking. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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2.5/5 |
[It's] like attending your high-school class's 10th reunion at Caesar's Palace. Most of the faces are familiar, but the décor has little relationship to anything you've ever seen before. Full Review |
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2/5 |
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5/5 |
Often unfairly maligned because it's slow and contemplative, but has some real ideas behind it.
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4/5 |
Ponderously long, yes; but it was and still is a true movie event.
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3/5 |
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2/5 |
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