Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Dotsthavesp I wanted to but couldn't!

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

cinemajesty Movie Review: "Star Trek: Insurrection" (1998)After a totally-convincing "Star Trek: First Contact" releasing toward Thanksgiving-favoring late November of 1996 to major "Next Generation" crew successes on the U.S. domestic market by exceeding a closing-in 50-Million-Dollar production budget, when here it must have been a 100-Million-Dollars from nevertheless "Star Trek" license-securing Hollywood major "Paramount Pictures"; a 1912 as legendary studio coming into hard standings of a hit-movie succession, when reprising directions by Commander Riker-actor Jonathan Frakes are noded with the best intentions to present a story fabricated by somehow at that time more benefited weekly-television-striker "Star Trek: Voyager" - in its 3rd to 4th striking seasons - to constant-showrunning as screenwriting producers Rick Berman and Michael Piller (1948-2005), who dug up deep-space-tribes of rivaling hostility-forcing Son'a in actions of fair, but budget-undermining space-battles between super-stylish "Enterprise NCC-1701-E" and a sharply-designed pair of attacking space crusaders near the orbit of a just-too-pleasantly-received harmony-loving beauty of "Planet Ba'ku", when it must have been a stake-raising firing-breathing monster of a showdown between a charming, but growing-soft character of Captain Jean-Luc Picard with changes to finish his career for a single kiss of a perfectly-matching "Ba'ku" woman, when his 1st officer Riker commands the crew with chair and manual enterprising joystick surrounded by minor-suspense-ringing supports of underplayed characters as klingon-warrior-turned-Starfleet-officer Worf, given face under heavy Oscar-worthy make-up actor Michael Dorn and metaphysical psychic Diana Troi, always hidden as balancing performance by actress Marina Sirtis, get eventually denied in a noteworthy, but then again falling short hand-to-hand combat in never-finished blue-screen-backdrops, where potential nemesis character Ru'afo, here visciously as too-briefly-built with just single-beat striking performance by F. Murray Abraham, without given "Insurrection" the proper fulfilling send-off in universally-receivable science-fiction satisfactions.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

rooprect What made the original Star Trek 60s show so outstanding wasn't action or special effects or twisty plots. What made it great, and the original impetus behind the genre of science fiction as penned by the masters H.G. Welles, Jules Verne, Mary Shelley et al, was the idea that science fiction can tell a cautionary tale about contemporary social and political issues.H.G. Welles' "The Time Machine" wasn't just about a dude zipping across time and getting into trouble; it was a stark prediction of how the human race might evolve into a divided species of predators and prey. Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" wasn't just about a terminally constipated monster lumbering around in electrician's boots; it was a dire warning against humans creating and/or genetically manipulating life without being responsible enough to handle the consequences. And here in the 9th installment of the Star Trek films "Insurrection", the story isn't just about Picard & friends trying to save a planet from yet another imperial takeover; it is a poignant and self deprecating look at how humans have this thing about trampling cultures that get in the way of progress.As my title goes, this is a throwback to some of the great social commentaries that the original Trek threw at us. It's right in league with episodes like "Patterns of Force" (about a very misguided starfleet effort to create order in a chaotic society by following the template of Nazi Germany, the "most efficient government in earth's history"), or does anyone remember the brutally symbolic Vietnam episode "A Private Little War" about a tiny planet that gets caught up as the prize between the Feds & the Klingons (USA & Russia), each superpower providing guns and weapons to their own side and escalating the conflict? "Insurrection", given the decade it was released, might've been directly inspired by the Tibet/China situation. But it's ambiguous enough that it also describes the plight of Native Americans, or even as far back as the Jews being expelled from their native homelands. The sad thing is it's still topical today; just open the newspaper and pick a region. That's the resounding point that this film makes: that even in the 23rd frickin century we are still doing it.OK, if I haven't yet scared you off in search of some mindless spaceship shootout flick instead, then read on because it gets better. This is definitely one of the darker Treks because, like in the two TOS examples I gave you above, we get deep into the insalubrious political side of Starfleet. In other words, we realize that Starfleet aren't the lily white "good guys" we'd like them to be. In this story, Starfleet basically sucks eggs. And that's what makes it especially tense because, almost like a political thriller, Picard and the crew of the Enterprise get caught up in a moral dilemma without any backup from the cavalry. That's all I'll say about that, you gotta watch the movie to see how it turns out.About the acting and the overall personality of the film, I thought it was great because the TNG crew really seem to have a great chemistry going, with some nice human moments and good dialogue. The price of admission is justified by one scene alone, when Data asks Worf if he's noticed that his "boobs are getting firmer" (Again, watch the movie, it'll make sense I swear).And F. Murray Abraham playing the main villain, wow. Channeling his inner Salieri ("Amadeus"), that is, a completely amoral character with an explosive desire for revenge, he was definitely a great casting choice.Just on a personal note, I grew up on the original Kirk-Spock-McCoy crew, and I fought the idea of accepting the Picard crew tooth & nail. They slowly wormed their way in over the years, but this is the film where I can officially say I'm a fan. If, for some reason, you're an old TOS curmudgeon who refuses to let Shatner give up the center seat, well this might be the movie that changes your mind. Too bad there's only 1 TNG movie left after this. Oh well, maybe in 20 years JJ Abrams will remake them all and we can do it all over again...

gtw-168-105516 This was a good episode of Star Trek. I think you could argue that it was not worth a movie when you could follow a more significant plot line (perhaps the end of hostilities between the Romulans and Federation ala Undiscovered Country, which I think they meant to do with the following movie but failed somewhat due to who was at the helm of the project). But I think it was also an attempt to add some fun for the crew (and audience), Riker shaving his beard, Picard's mambo, etc. It's great fun, decent but simple story, well executed. People arguing the philosophical questions are one, not suspending disbelief- this is the future, your problems are not the future's problems and two, forgetting the godd*mn Prime Directive. In the whole 7 seasons and movies the Prime Directive is a central theme. Yeah, let's throw it out because of a planet's potential benefits. Lastly, for some reason there are a few reviewers that are upset with the Amish aliens in the movie. Boo hoo. There are different kinds of people in the universe. Relax. Enjoy the movie.

trashgang Oh my God, this was for me a terrible flick and hard to watch because what the hell has this to do with Star Trek and the effects were sometimes done with cheap CGI so it was easy to spot when spaceships were made of pure CGI. Here we do have it again, humor added to the story with for example the Klingon and his pimple on his face. Total crap. And the love added to the story even makes it more laughable, you don't need that in a Star Trek flick.I can understand why those second generation flicks weren't made with a lot of money. Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 2/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5