Review of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) by Daniel Y — 18 Jul 2016

Though it is fun watching the original crew do their first movie and looking at the stunning visuals, Star Trek: The Motion Picture hasn't got anything nor is it even entertaining. This film tries so hard to be interesring that it goes the 2001 route rather than going the Star Trek route that was in the original TV show.

But, rather than being a confusing masterpiece like 2001 was, it instead is a snooze fest that has an enemy that is a cloud and only has action in the very beginning when the klingons were being attacked by it and, to add to that, the enterprise only shot 1 blaster and that was at an asteroid while going through a boring wormhole.

But, I'm afraid, that this movie will only get support and hardly any enjoyment out of deeply obsessed Star Trek fans and not from anyone else.