Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

The best Star Trek movie, and among the finest of the genre! The effects and look still hold up today, but the main draw here is obviously the plot! A tale of revenge and and sacrifice, that plays out much like a Greek tragedy in space. With plenty of memorable characters and quotable lines! If you wanna know what all the fuss is about Star Trek, see this film!

This a great movie. Star Trek the motion picture is a good movie. This is better. This is better the the TV show. This has a great story line. It also has great acting. Star Trek III the search for Spoke is better. This a great movie. See it.

"Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan" is a much needed improvement over its more expensive but poor predecessor. The above film actually delivers what it promises, via a good story, some action, fairly good acting and a brilliant villain in the form of Ricardo Monteban (excuse the poor spelling). The violence is rather explicit for a "Star Trek" film and indeed, a few edits were made before the film went out on general release. The budget had to be greatly reduced but it is of little consequence. The film picks up after the episode called "Space Seed" (one of the very best from the series). I rate "Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan" as one of the defining ones, easily.

This movie follows "Star Trek The Motion Picture" and is almost the inevitable follow-up of the franchise. Not having watched the original series, I wasn't able to immediately understand the movie which, experts say, consists of the continuation of one of the episodes. But the film itself gives us the tools to catch everything quickly. And we must now say an obvious truth: after the failure of the first film it was difficult to do worse, and this film benefited greatly from the lessons learned with the mistakes of the first one. The script is frankly good, based on a revenge story between Kirk and Khan, and it has no dead moments nor creeps like the first movie. The main actors (William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley) shone, in particular Shatner and Nimoy, without however being able to overshadow the talent of Ricardo Montalban, who managed to make his villain into a perfect image of rancor. As for the sets and costumes, there are also improvements: the hospital environment of the first film gave way to a setting where color is most evident and the Enterprise's crew red uniforms are truly elegant. The only less positive note is the costumes of Khan and his comrades of misfortune, who seem to have come out of "Conan the Barbarian" or something like that, but this is something that has no great relevance. Good movie, good entertainment.