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Bookmark this pageStar Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Not only a movie sequel, but a follow-up to the 1967 TV series episode Space Seed, in which Captain (now Admiral) Kirk exiled cosmic renegade Khan to the outer limits, where he's been hatching revenge ever since. Foregoing the special effects bonanza of its predecessor, it settles for low camp humanoid melodrama. The ageing Shatner and his equally self-amused Enterprise cohorts now 'boldly go' wreathed in soft focus, smiling down on a shipful of apprentice Trekkies until summoned to urgent comic strip action when Khan threatens to reverse creation with a destructively-wielded Genesis device. The net effect, between embarrassed guffaws, is incredulity: a movie at once post-TV and pre-DW Griffith.Author: PT
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- Robert said...
- Posted on Jan 28 2011 14:57 Star Trek II was an outstanding and exciting film.
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- Deleuze said...
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Posted on Sep 05 2007 05:36
"a movie at once post-TV and pre-DW Griffith" good god..
The misery of this writer just oozes out of the syntax! - Report as inappropriate
Cast & crew
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Producer: Robert Sallin
Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Ricardo Montalban, Paul Winfield, Kirstie Alley full cast
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Duration: 114 mins
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