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Nothing but a long day's journey into ennui.
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
The human adventure is just beginning.
1979 · 2h 11m · G
Adventure, Mystery, Science Fiction
Directed by
Robert Wise
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Overview
When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk returns to the newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command.
Director and cast
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51%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The expensive effects (under supervision of Douglas Trumbull) are the secret of this film, and the amazing wizardry throughout would appear to justify the whopping budget.
Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten
This 1979 movie adaptation of the cult TV series is blandness raised to an epic scale.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Rotten
[It's] like attending your high-school class's 10th reunion at Caesar's Palace. Most of the faces are familiar, but the decor has little relationship to anything you've ever seen before.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh
Star Trek - The Motion Picture: Director's Edition is no 2001 (its obvious inspiration -- a fact that is more evident here than ever before), but it represents thought-provoking, well constructed science fiction.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
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