Review of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) by Tony H — 30 Apr 2010

Where do you begin? It starts with a bang and ends with a bang and there is always something going on during the film. It intoduces us to a wider Starfleet first glimpsed in The Motion Picture. New ships, Spacedock, some good backstory for Kirk.

I can't think of anything to fault this film. The music is great (Even if James Horner ripped of his own themes from Battle Beyond the Stars and even revisited in Aliens and Avatar). The effects still stand up today (Perhaps the the very early CGI looks a wee bit dated) the model work is fantastic.

And then there is the scene stealing Khan. Never having the hero and the baddie meet at all through the film is bold of Trek, only in The Voyage Home does it happen again. But much better effect here.

Love everything about this film. I was a fan of the show before this, but this was the film that made me a lifelong fan.