In fact, so much more was apparently spent on the effects than on the script that the chief mystery is why there is so little action and so much talk.

| Sep 22, 2024

Star Trek is good entertainment, with moments of genuine lyricism and no convincing reason to last two hours and eleven minutes. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 17, 2024

[The film] lacks almost every joyous attribute carried by the television show, regardless of its technical merits.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 5, 2023

Its space adventure registers, on the visual side, fleeting moments of special effects that work as pyrotechnic decoration, but it has a rushed plot that goes nowhere with the crew of mechanical characters. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 31, 2022

The most ambitious of all the Star Trek films—philosophical and metaphysical on a grand scale.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 9, 2022

On reflection, the Star Trek meets 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY was a hard sell back in 1979. But in the now it's a beautiful film, a singular work of science fiction art that merges the past, in a sense, to what was yet to come. Beam me up! New 4K Blu-ray.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 15, 2022

Still missing the whimsy that made the series so fun, this 2001 version of Star Trek is still fascinating to watch with a scope worthy of the theatrical experience.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 9, 2022

... while it’s not the most riveting experience compared to all the films which follow, it is, perhaps, the most "Star Trek" of them all. And now, thanks to this latest release, Wise’s vision is as complete as possible for all to enjoy.

| Sep 6, 2022

A cerebral, 2001: A Space Odyssey-inspired story that sends our heroes into the heart of a dangerous alien megaship. Yet what they discover... is the essence of human scientific inquiry and the existential despair at reaching the end of all knowing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 19, 2022

It’s a bit overextended but very watchable with flourishes of exotic invention...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 18, 2022

| Jul 25, 2022

Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a stone classic, best experienced on as large a scale as possible.

| May 19, 2022

The Motion Picture is Star Trek at possibly its most cerebral, asking bigger questions about the nature of existence and sentience instead of delivering a swashbuckling adventure that audiences may have been hoping for at the time.

| Apr 12, 2022

...the underrated first feature film is a slice of ’70s sci-fi that differs from its swashbuckling sequels...

| Apr 9, 2022

Visually and thematically, The Motion Picture is as pure and honourable to the history and themes of Star Trek as anything before or since.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 27, 2022

No mistake about it, Star Trek is a big movie - big in scope, big in spectacle and, most important, big in entertainment values.

| Dec 7, 2021

Science fiction is about ideas as much as about action, which is why this talky drama is a worthy entry.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 10, 2021

This time, the producers went out and spent $42 million on the thing, so the scale is immense. The basic themes that made the series so popular remain, standing like diamond spines inside the vast new structure: It's still very much Star Trek in there.

| Jul 20, 2021

The special effects aren't bad for the late '70s, but they're not pushed far enough to surpass peers.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 31, 2020

While hardly an accessible introduction for non-Trekkies and at times even a bit of a slog for confirmed initiates, Star Trek: The Motion Picture weeps atmosphere and artistry out of almost every pore.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 31, 2020