I saw this movie yesterday on the TV and I really need to write a review. I am not a big Star Trek fan. I used to watch the Next Generation series when I was a child and found it very interesting. Lately I saw the original series and found it very naive. I also remember Star Trek: The Motion Picture, as a great movie, with superb music, nice philosophical problems and a climate similar to the masterpiece of 2001: Space Odyssey. So when I saw a new Star Trek starting on TV I decided to give it a try. It must be fun. I was wrong.
Well I don't really want to describe the whole plot. The movie is so ridiculous to me, that I would waste half a day to describe everything. At the beginning we see the Enterprise flying thousands of light years to collect parts of a droid (which then of course will turn out to be very important to the plot). Can you imagine that in current reality? I mean a captain of a warship sailing to the other side of the Earth just to collect some parts of a broken computer? Then we see some diplomacy and trickery, but this is so naive and unbelievable that reminds me only of the original series. But that was made in the 60's, and now we have XXI century! The final fight is really terrible. Please compare it to the Klingon raid on VGER's cloud in the Motion Picture. In Nemesis we see ships flying around, doing some random shooting etc. No emotions. We are watching this and thinking when it will end. It seems that being hit by a torpedo is not dangerous because it could destroy the ship, but rather because passengers could be killed from flying around the cabin. Haven't they designed seat belts yet? I also cannot understand how being hit in the engines could cause production of sparks on the bridge... Another thing - if it is so easy to board an enemy ship in that reality, why aren't there any safety systems like sentries or force-shields inside? Anyway - compare it to the Star Wars IV opening scene, where we also see boarding of an enemy ship. Is it comparable at all? Nemesis reminds me more of boys playing paint ball rather than regular war. Why can't Enterprise discover a ship which is cloaked? I thought that they have most sophisticated hardware on board. I would expect them to think of something, maybe design a detector or so. Nope - they will use telepathy... aghrr. OK I've had it. I really cannot image how can Nemesis have higher rating here than The Motion Picture. But if other Star Trek movies are more similar to Nemesis than to TMP, then the whole series must be a real crap. Sorry.
I give it 3/10, because there still are (really!) movies worse than that.
Well I don't really want to describe the whole plot. The movie is so ridiculous to me, that I would waste half a day to describe everything. At the beginning we see the Enterprise flying thousands of light years to collect parts of a droid (which then of course will turn out to be very important to the plot). Can you imagine that in current reality? I mean a captain of a warship sailing to the other side of the Earth just to collect some parts of a broken computer? Then we see some diplomacy and trickery, but this is so naive and unbelievable that reminds me only of the original series. But that was made in the 60's, and now we have XXI century! The final fight is really terrible. Please compare it to the Klingon raid on VGER's cloud in the Motion Picture. In Nemesis we see ships flying around, doing some random shooting etc. No emotions. We are watching this and thinking when it will end. It seems that being hit by a torpedo is not dangerous because it could destroy the ship, but rather because passengers could be killed from flying around the cabin. Haven't they designed seat belts yet? I also cannot understand how being hit in the engines could cause production of sparks on the bridge... Another thing - if it is so easy to board an enemy ship in that reality, why aren't there any safety systems like sentries or force-shields inside? Anyway - compare it to the Star Wars IV opening scene, where we also see boarding of an enemy ship. Is it comparable at all? Nemesis reminds me more of boys playing paint ball rather than regular war. Why can't Enterprise discover a ship which is cloaked? I thought that they have most sophisticated hardware on board. I would expect them to think of something, maybe design a detector or so. Nope - they will use telepathy... aghrr. OK I've had it. I really cannot image how can Nemesis have higher rating here than The Motion Picture. But if other Star Trek movies are more similar to Nemesis than to TMP, then the whole series must be a real crap. Sorry.
I give it 3/10, because there still are (really!) movies worse than that.
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