Star Trek V The Final Frontier PG
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier is ultimately a letdown, not the strongest movie, but how could it have competed with the fun loving previous movie, where they voyage home? They could not. Shatner directed this mess which seems like a low budget episode of the series, not a movie, and even though he has his big three characters down pat, Kirk, Spock and Bones, the rest are lesser interest and not given much to do. The premise, a planet called Nimbus 3 has a situation where a charismatic Vulcan is holding prisoners. The Enterprise is a disaster, but the only ship available. Starfleet didn't give him a working new ship, but a lemon. The ship encounters Klingons and the charismatic guy, who turns out to be Spock'as half brother, and who takes over the ship to go on a quest for the Holy Grail, no wait, to find God! Wow. Only they find a glowing head and some other glowing rock things and shoot them with a torpedo. The wrap around is a campfire scene that is truly fun for the wrong reasons. Still, the ridiculous dorky gaffs outweighed the enjoyment of the movie, the incredibly Superman-like Spock on gravity boots, the flying up the turbo elevator shaft that's bigger than space dock, and the backward deck numbers inside, and that fake looking God thing, conspire to ruin it. A Vulcan nobody has ever met is so great and charismatic that he takes over a whole starship crew and convinces them to follow him? What? Where were the other crewmen? That's just silly. And those Klingons were like models for fashion and body building magazines! Hu. And no, Spock never mentioned he had a brother. But still, it gets kudos for having heart.
Review by Adam Browne
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