Review of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) by Filipeneto — 07 Aug 2018

This movie follows "Star Trek The Motion Picture" and is almost the inevitable follow-up of the franchise. Not having watched the original series, I wasn't able to immediately understand the movie which, experts say, consists of the continuation of one of the episodes.

But the film itself gives us the tools to catch everything quickly. And we must now say an obvious truth: after the failure of the first film it was difficult to do worse, and this film benefited greatly from the lessons learned with the mistakes of the first one.

The script is frankly good, based on a revenge story between Kirk and Khan, and it has no dead moments nor creeps like the first movie. The main actors (William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley) shone, in particular Shatner and Nimoy, without however being able to overshadow the talent of Ricardo Montalban, who managed to make his villain into a perfect image of rancor.

As for the sets and costumes, there are also improvements: the hospital environment of the first film gave way to a setting where color is most evident and the Enterprise's crew red uniforms are truly elegant.

The only less positive note is the costumes of Khan and his comrades of misfortune, who seem to have come out of "Conan the Barbarian" or something like that, but this is something that has no great relevance.

Good movie, good entertainment.