Space

2108

An alien world's new dictator is a mad clone.

There are enough good ideas in it that it might have been a good movie, with a different director and a revised script. As it is, it's just sort of like, "I don't know, here are some spaceships, and guys in capes, and I guess this isn't Star Wars?"

Concept: C
Story: D
Characters: C
Dialog: C
Pacing: B
Cinematography: C
Special effects/design: C
Acting: C
Music: C

Enjoyment: C plus

GPA: 2.0/4 ( )

A lot of Star Trek fans panned this one. I think partly because they felt it was too reminiscent of Wrath of Khan with Data playing the Spock role. (Well, compared to Into the Darkness....) I liked it though. I found it fascinating what the character of Praetor Shinzon and what it implied about Picard's potentials--how differently he might have wound up. And seriously, this is a lot better than several Trek films: Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek: The Final Frontier, Star Trek: Generations and Star Trek: Insurrection. (And definitely better than the latest and lame Into the Darkness. So I'd call it middle of the pack. ( )