Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
When a destructive space entity is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral Kirk resumes command of the Starship Enterprise in order to intercept, examine, and hopefully stop it.
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The movie's unnecessarily long run time due to its drawn out scenes of ships, clouds and space, and a boring substandard plot which makes use of none of its strong characters, makes me wonder why I even bothered to write this review.
Among all these "Star Trek" movies, 1979~2016, this is the only one that's reasonably interesting. Probably the closest thing to a "Trumbull movie". Unfortunately, it will never get the attention of, and be "re-discovered" by, many people interested in visuals, real science fiction, and space, simply because it has the label "Star Trek" attached to its title
Below average acting (probably from everyones experience with the animated series) and waaaaaay too much dialogue. The strange plot surrounding a massive vessel called the intruder doesn't help either. This has the distinction of being one of the most boring movies ever made.
In a weird way, I kind of recommend this movie. It's kind of weird how the last "Star Trek" movie I watch (well before the new ones come out) happens to be the first. It really is interesting to see where such a long running sci-fi movie franchise began. I actually really do like the appearance of the film. Already it looks like a step up from the TV show. Granted, I've never seen a full episode of that. For me, it really did seem like a long episode of the show. As I said in my "Doctor Who" review, that's not really a good thing.This is the longest "Star Trek" movie ever made or at least it's tied with "Star Trek: Into Darkness" a far superior movie. This film suffers from lingering shots of space that are pointless. It's irritating with such a long movie. Interestingly enough, in a certain way it did work a bit. It made the movie really leisurely to watch. I mean, it's still boring, but it was something you could take your time with. The visual effects really do hold up. The story itself is okay, with the characters journeying to stop an anomaly from reaching Earth. It's pretty much a mediocre movie, but it's still interesting given how significant it is as a film. **1/2