Noutions Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Brainsbell The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

simonthenixon This is still one of the greatest shows to ever hit tv. It was deeper than a lot of stuff that was around then, and that lasts longer than production values ever will, even though the production values make me laugh, and I love that. The reason it stuck around is because it has big thoughts and big ideas, and that's worth more than any of that other stuff. It broke boundaries and pushed limits that don't seem like a big deal now, but were back then. I love Star Wars, but it's weird how much more recognition that gets than this.

willfmoviejudge Although every man or woman is entitled to their opinion, Star Trek was one of the biggest most successful phenomenas of all time. This show was the pioneer of quality science fiction, because it was the aggregator that redefined and paved the way for other later successful sci-fi shows like Battle Star Galactica, Star Trek Next Generation, Voyager, etc. Star Trek was initially created by ex-Los Angeles police officer Gene Roddenberry after he retired from the police; movies and TV shows were his hobby.The premise initially was very simple: A captain aboard his enormous space ship called the U.S.S Enterprise and his crew trek on their five year expedition to explore strange new worlds and seek out life on other civilizations; simply put "to boldly go where no man has gone before." This crew has to obey a Federation of Planets policy known as the Prime Directive, which states that they cannot interfere with and alter the life of the civilians on the planet they encounter. However, as the show goes on, we see that the crew amongst the Enterprise almost always interfere with people's lives anyway. In addition, another sub premise revolves around the concept that they always have to fight against Klingons, Romulans, and other very hostile aliens to survive.Although this show only ran for three seasons (1966-1969), the reason why this show was affluently successful was because it knew how to draw the attention between younger (less mature) audiences as well as older (more mature) audiences alike. Younger audiences would love the exceptionally high level of action between the over acted, over choreographed fight scenes as well as Captain James T. Kirk played by William Shatner (who was also known for the Twilight Zone and Boston Legal) making love to MORE THAN 85% of the women he encountered on the show. It is the older audiences that would have a better understanding on Star Trek's overall message. Say what you want, but in reality Star Trek was at least 15-20 years ahead of schedule. Star Trek first aired in a period of time in U.S history when gender segregation and racial discrimination were still at large, a plague contaminating society's social mores. Shoving action and hokey scenes aside, Star Trek was responsible for explaining to us how people should work together to accomplish a common goal despite race, gender and creed.The main crew members aboard the Enterprise are all diverse from one another. 1: James Kirk is a Canadian/U.S. Captain where he is the one who commands the Enterprise and all its vital functions. Compared to most science fiction captains like Captain Picard from Star Trek Next Generation, he is more impulsive with his actions than he is diplomatic, which usually gets him into trouble. 2: Spock played by Leonard Nimoy is a half vulcan, half human hybrid who is Kirk's science officer as well as his second in command. A vulcan is an alien race that is distantly relatable to Klingons and Romulans but not nearly as aggressive. 3: Sulu played by George Takei (pronounced Ta Kay) is a Japanese pilot of the Enterprise, responsible for piloting the Enterprise to a given planet given orders by the Captain. 4: Chekov played by Walter Koenig is a young Russian man that is the ship's main ensign. An ensign is simply a young man or a woman who has an internship for a star fleet academy. 5: Dr. McCoy (aka Bones, we never find out why?) played by DeForest Kelly is an American Surgeon from down south who serves as the ship's head of a place called Sick Bay, which is basically the ship's hospital. His catchphrase was always "Dammit Jim I'm a Doctor not a..." you can literally fill in any word that starts with a "P". This Doctor has an opposite personality than Spock, therefore they always bicker about little trivial things. 6: Lieutenant Scott played by James Doohan is the Chief Engineer who is responsible for having to fix things on the ship. Whenever he has to fix things on the ship though; he always says "I can't do it Captain" but gets it fixed anyway. 7: Uhura played by Nichelle Nichols is the Enterprise's communications officer. This character/actress paved the way for African Americans to receive better roles in television (which was unheard of in the 1960's). This actress indirectly inspired Whoopi Goldberg to get into acting where she stars in the other show Next Generation. You get my point here, the characters are very diverse, but once again they work well together as one union.I highly recommend all age groups of people to give this show a chance. I understand that the first two seasons were fantastic, but the third season was sub-par; but I'm willing to forgive a handful or two of less than satisfactory episodes of this show because once again it was a show ahead of its time. I cannot explain everything in this one review, but my review already beat the dead horse on the overall sophication of this show. Once again, a show that generations and generations and GENERATIONS of kids and young adults should watch from beginning to end.Overall Show Rating: 92%

martin-panda-svetlik I know that Star Trek is a huge series with a lots of hardcore fans etc, but as a person who has never seen it before, and started only recently, I was drastically disappointed. Yes, I know that it is from the late 60s, so I expected that the "hi-tech" stuff will not be so much hi-tech now, and that does not bother me, I am okay with that. What bothers me is the production quality, that, from my point of view, too low.Just a quick list: It seems that (after watching 4 episodes, I could not force myself to another one), that every episode could be executed in 20-30 minutes, but takes 50. This is very basic problem, there are unnecessarily long pauses and shots of no importance, so I got bored very quickly. Maybe in late 60s when there was nothing else on TV it was OK, but now, I can't go through it.most of the times there are no "unnecessary" people in the rooms, just the people who have the dialogue. Sometimes when the scene takes place in hallways, we can see somebody going in the opposite direction, but the same should apply in the rooms. I mean, big rooms like the medical quarters, cafeteria, some main control rooms - but no, there are almost always only the main protagonists. But it's supposed to be a bloody big ship, so where are the people?The plot "twists" are so predictable - They go to some planet, find somebody or something, and then weird things start happening on the ship. Of course it has to do something with the fact that you just visited the alien planet! And they seem not to get it.Lazy camera work

Willem van Summeren (blueshadow-632-977816) I've watched every other acted star trek series and seen all the movies yet I cannot get into watching this series. It feels far too dated (especially the computer tech is an annoyance), the acting feels horrible and the horrible portrayal combined makes it tough for me to take a decent look at its content. The downright goofy alien appearances and bad special effects do not help either (yes this series is old and special effects on what is now a decent level was really expensive back then, yet I am not watching back then).This series started a great universe yet to me it unbearable to watch. I guess you have to be born far before 1990 to be fully able to enjoy this.