Review of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) by Ben D — 22 Dec 2014

For love of all things holy, can I please have a Star Trek movie that doesn't suck? The only one out of the original 6 that I've liked is The Wrath of Khan! This one had promise too. But no. They had to go and screw it up! The the plot sounds cool on paper.

The Enterprise and crew have to go and save some people who have been taken hostage by a revolutionary vulcan, then being taken over by the vulcan themselves and forced to fly to the center of the galaxy in hopes of finding the place where everything was created.

That sounds awesome. Unfortunately the movie tries to be funny and it fails miserably. The most painful of these attempts is Uhura performing a lap dance too draw the attention of the enemy. Terrible, terrible, terrible.

Towards the end of the film, it becomes incredibly boring very quickly. One scene felt like it had been going for 30 minutes when in actuality it had been going on for maybe 5. This isn't my least favorite Star Trek movie, that honor going to the first film, but it still sucks and I recommend you skip it.