The plot, about a quest for the Ultimate Answer, resembles something Douglas Adams would have thrown in the bin.
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02/09/06
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 worst Star Trek movie.
05/19/08
Top CriticAlthough the film's ontological approach may be intriguing, this rather dull entry fails to generate the kind of thoughtful, exciting adventure that made the Gene Roddenberry TV series so compelling.
05/19/08
Top CriticThe only thing worse than letting William Shatner act in a movie is letting William Shatner direct one.
12/19/03
The worst movie of the franchise. Even God couldn't save it. An embarrassment to the series.
02/14/03
Captain Kirk and his crew go where too many film makers have too often gone before.
05/20/03
Top Criticabsolutely terrible... a vanity project for William Shatner
10/11/03
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
It will likely maintain its long-cemented reputation as the worst film in the series.
10/22/03
Probably the worst film in the series.
01/01/00
Proceed with caution.
05/26/06
It's amazing an entire studio would bend over to make William Shatner's ego trip.
07/26/02
[The] special effects, despite the hefty budget, look strictly bargain basement.
05/19/08
No review available.
12/11/02
Shatner can be funny, but he stinks as a director.
02/04/05
...delivers all the pleasure of a plucked pubic hair.
04/08/06
No review available.
03/19/03
Bloated, bombastic and maddeningly pretentious.
05/12/01
No review available.
05/19/05
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