The worst Star Trek movie.
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05/19/08
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
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Reviews Counted:40
Fresh:9
Rotten:31
Average Rating:4/10
Consensus: Filled with dull action sequences and an underdeveloped storyline, this fifth Trek movie is probably the worst of the series.
Runtime: 1 hr 47 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: Stardate 8454.1: In the windswept desert of Nimbus III, the Planet of Galactic Peace, a lone settler witnesses a man materializing out of the dusty horizon, offering to share and bear the settler's... [More]
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan
Director: William Shatner
Reviews for Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Top CriticAs 1979's The Motion Picture courted derision for its cerebral 2001 approach, The Final Frontier damages it's own cause with a high-brow 'Man's Search for God' story.
09/11/01
Top CriticThe plot, about a quest for the Ultimate Answer, resembles something Douglas Adams would have thrown in the bin.
02/09/06
Top CriticProceed with caution.
05/26/06
The whole point of the movie has something to do with the search for God and Eden, but the theme is presented in the most mundane fashion imaginable.
01/01/00
...delivers all the pleasure of a plucked pubic hair.
04/08/06
A science fiction thriller with the moral message that we should look for God within the human heart and appreciate the moral dimensions of friendship
07/19/03
There is no doubt about it – Star Trek V is a bad movie.
10/28/01
Of all of the Star Trek movies, this is the worst.
01/01/00
Top CriticSuffice it to say, if you're a Star Trek fan, you won't be disappointed in this latest entry. If you're not, consider yourself warned.
01/01/00
Captain Kirk and his crew go where too many film makers have too often gone before.
05/20/03
Top CriticA snoozola of astronomic proportions.
01/01/00
It will likely maintain its long-cemented reputation as the worst film in the series.
10/22/03
Did it really take William Shatner in the director's chair to finally give us a decent Star Trek movie?
04/05/09
I liked what it seemed to me the film had said.
01/01/00
absolutely terrible... a vanity project for William Shatner
10/11/03
Probably the worst film in the series.
01/01/00
Final Frontier is a warmly crafted picture only lacking a sophisticated technical and dramatic finesse the earlier features held in abundance. The film is never aggressively odious, just undernourished.
08/26/09
[The] special effects, despite the hefty budget, look strictly bargain basement.
05/19/08
William Shatner's inauspicious feature directing debut is a double letdown.
05/19/08
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February 28, 2007:
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