Star Trek : The Undiscovered CountryThe politics helps create a strong energy among the characters in here but unfortunately it isn't as convoluted or thought-provoking as the writers think and neither does it offer anything creative on any other bits of the feature, after the curtain drops, the audience feels cheated with a feeling of been-here-done-that routine. It doesn't even live up to its sci-fi genre but is more mythical and typical revenge based on melodrama, that implants a misconception of the writers which gets them to take their fanatics for granted. Nicholas Meyer is definitely an improvement on terms of the execution of franchise but frankly that's not saying a lot considering what we have been offered over the years. The performance is quite effective in here since the actors were revisiting their roles for the last time, they did invest their heart into it which is clearly visible. It is short on technical aspects like visual effects, sound department, make-up design, editing and cinematography. Star Trek : The Undiscovered Country feels already discovered and gotten over it, for the writers spend way too much time on weaving an emotional conflict for being under enormous amount of pressure in order to offer a better farewell for the beloved characters.

The last flick with the original crew and for me the best one. There's suspense all over the flick and it never had a boring moment. But the most interesting thing is the fact that the comedy was left out an the characters and away from the parodies.Somehow if I compare it with part V the whole crew looks younger. But it was the final call for the whole crew. And they would be honored in the beginning of the flick but of course things go wrong when Kirk and Bones are taken in prison. From there on all is top notch. A must see for all Trekkies and non Trekkies. Great story, perfect acting, stunning effects.Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 3/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5

None of the Star Trek feature films have been what one would call great art, even though they were entertaining at times. They had the disadvantage of needing to appeal to not just Star Trek fans, but also to a larger audience who did not know what Star Trek is all about.But ST VI breaks that mold some, and gives us an actual ST episode that looks at Star Fleet itself. Star Trek has always had a kind of law and order bent to it, and so it is that we have a mystery driving the plot and story forward. And we also a slightly more classic feel of ST as we know it in terms of story and characters.Here the characters act as their characters in the TV series of old. We don't necessarily see the total dynamic of how they interacted during times of crisis in the TV series, but we do see them in their roles as they progress through the adventure.The story itself comes close to skidding into Spockanian "illogic", because both Kirk and McCoy aren't really given much to do in terms of the overall story. In fact one wonders where this story element came from, and one wishes that perhaps a veteran on the writing team had given the Captain and the ship's Chief Surgeon something a bit more compelling to do, or with perhaps a different set of plot and story points during act II.The powers that be, in my not so humble opinion, probably had six films scheduled until the new TV series could take hold, and then the feature films would focus on the defunct and tragically crippled "Star Trek the Next Generation".As far as the minutiae of Trek-details go, well, there's lots for the fans to argue about in terms of the setting, props and general zeitgeist. Me, as a die-hard "dyed in the wool" fan, I don't have too many bones to pick with this film, other than wonder why this amount of script doctoring and film doctoring could not have been given to the previous films. I think both fans and general movie goers deserved it.So why wasn't it done? Simply put the Kirk-Spock era, at the time, was probably seen as working overtime, and the Trek powers that were probably thought that Picard and crew would take hold in the hearts and minds of classic and neo-Trek fans alike. But, as time and criticism has shown, this is not so, and the fault lies on the deliberate sociological and social-psychologists who tried to rework the general setting of Star Trek until it was broken.And now, at the time of this writing, the last of the three JJ Abrams "Trek" films is in the theatre, where the characters are played somewhat as caricatures of the original crew. One should note that these films are making a kind of over-the-top "hearkening back" to what mister Abrams believes classic Trek fans think of Star Trek.This fan says he's got it wrong, and should have watched ST VI, but this classic Trek fan also realizes that mister Abrams is making a film for a younger generation. Which is even more curious given the directing style and overall thrust, feel and look of the films.But getting back to ST VI, it is a film for the fans, and a kind of tribute to both show and the fans who supported it. In a sense ST 1 to ST VI were the missing infamous 4th season. And having the entire crew on the bridge with classic Sound FX and the classic tune humming in the background, was a good send off and tribute to both show and the fans who were there from the beginning with the family and friends manually hand cranking a cathode ray tube TV dial to see what Kirk and the crew of the starship Enterprise were up to every week.But again, all in all, ST VI, even though it's meant more for the fans than the general public, feels a little weak and marginally off kilter in execution. The space sequences could have been sharper. The location sequences could have been shot differently with a different story, but, that's neither here nor there. The creative team picked a certain script, shot it, and we're given what they produced.Not a bad film, but for a series finale, it could have been "bigger" without over-blowing the story to another "save the galaxy / universe" kind of tripe so frequent in other sci-fi shows and films.All in all a decent watch. I would have shot it differently, but that's another post for another time.

"Star Trek VI" is the reason I can't watch this movie series in numerical order. Well, mostly because it's a wildly uneven series, but also because this well-constructed grace-note is followed up with "Generations" - a movie that seems to want to muck up a good thing. "The Undiscovered Country" works so well because of, well, several reasons. One, it's a sincere send-off for the original crew. Everyone here's an aligned cog in a tuned machine. Two, it's a good murder-mystery/prison-movie/Cold War allegory. And there's a decent bit of fun to be had here, without toppling over into parody (you've gotta admit, watching Captain Kirk get into a fistfight with himself is pretty funny).But it's really just a solid movie, very watchable, and boasting a pretty great supporting cast. Unfortunately, it's sandwiched between two foul-ups (ehh, it's kinda all downhill from here on out, "First Contact" being a slight upward bump), but most importantly, these famous characters - by and large - don't go out like chumps.* 7/10 *You suck, "Generations".