Using the contrast between Ricardo Montalban’s fiery Khan and William Shatner’s pasty Captain Kirk as the psychological center, [director Nicholas Meyer] keeps the movie whipping from one incident to another.

| Sep 19, 2023

The Wrath of Khan does something that movies based on television shows have tried to do, but have often failed to accomplish: the film elevates the material from 온라인카지노추천 to film with appropriate gravitas.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 5, 2023

Entertaining and charming in its innocent idealism.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2022

The emotive finale... smartly restates the film’s themes of ageing and mortality, and provides cinema history with the unforgettable, tear-jerking line: “I have been, and always shall be, your friend.”

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 17, 2022

The movie that may very well have saved the Trek franchise (40th anniversary)

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 16, 2022

It’s Montalbahn’s physical threat and very real sense of menace that gives Wrath of Khan its propulsive narrative and addictive quality that keeps you coming back time and again.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 21, 2022

The dull thud of Nicholas Mayer's direction, which mixes the custardy platitudes of the original television series with some of the less-thunderous special effects of the latter-day cinema, has everything in place, like a tidy housewife's kitchen.

| Nov 11, 2021

Fans of the Starship Enterprise will be ecstatic while others will find in this production a certain sluggish pace amid rather fine special effects.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 11, 2021

In the end, it makes for a beautiful summary, an envoi from which one can circle back through the re-runs and consider Star Trek as a finished whole. Even if they never make another, the saga can stand complete.

| Nov 10, 2021

Star Trek II tells a sock-'em story, which is more than can be said for the first Star Trek movie. Nicholas Meyer, an energetic director, is a master of narrative, and Star Trek II crackles with his wit.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 9, 2021

Bottom line is that they have returned to the things that made the series so successful for so long.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 11, 2021

Both pensive and action-packed.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 10, 2021

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is the movie that should have been made the first time around.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 18, 2021

Shatner and Montalban never share the same space, but their face-offs highlight the film, as they both wring every drop of drama out of their lines.

| Sep 9, 2020

Director Nicholas Meyer plays off the light and the dark of the story against each other with flair and command.

| Sep 9, 2020

It's 온라인카지노추천 all the way: The actors race up and down plastic corridors in the same old story about the universe almost coming to an end.

| Sep 9, 2020

There's a wonderfully playful quality among Shatner, Nimoy and Kelley as the ship's top officers.

| Sep 9, 2020

Though Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan lacks the grandiose sweep and inflated budget of the first film, it is infinitely richer in characterizations, and its succinctly drawn storyline manages to be both riveting and warmly affecting.

| Sep 9, 2020

Director Nicholas Meyer has made this Star Trek an intelligent and slam-bang thriller with a Saturday matinee serial air.

| Sep 9, 2020

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is a clever, exciting movie that grabs you right from the start by involving you in the conflicts and aspirations of its characters.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 9, 2020