Rotten
William Shatner's inauspicious feature directing debut is a double letdown.
Variety Staff, Variety
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Adventure and imagination will meet at the final frontier.
1989 · 1h 46m · PG
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
William Shatner
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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Overview
A renegade Vulcan with a startling secret hijacks the U.S.S. Enterprise in order to find a mythical planet.
Director and cast
- William Shatner Director
- William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk
- Leonard Nimoy as Captain Spock
- DeForest Kelley as Dr. Leonard McCoy
- James Doohan as Montgomery Scott
- George Takei as Cmdr. Hikaru Sulu
- Walter Koenig as Cmdr. Pavel Chekov
- Nichelle Nichols as Cmdr. Uhura
- Laurence Luckinbill as Sybok
- David Warner Cast
- Charles Cooper Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
22%
Tomatometer
Rotten
[The] special effects, despite the hefty budget, look strictly bargain basement.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Rotten
Captain Kirk and his crew go where too many film makers have too often gone before.
Caryn James, New York Times
Rotten
Bloated, bombastic and maddeningly pretentious.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Rotten
The whole point of the movie has something to do with the search for God and Eden, but the theme is presented in the most mundane fashion imaginable.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
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