Each Star Trek Film, Ranked By Rotten Tomatoes Rating
Simply because the Star Trek TV sequence have gone via a bunch of various phases, eras, and Enterprise crews, so have the flicks. The primary batch starred the solid of The Authentic Collection, the second batch starred the solid of The Subsequent Era, and the latest movies have been set in what J.J. Abrams has known as “the Kelvin Timeline.”
A few of these motion pictures have been nice, thought of to be classics of science fiction cinema, whereas others have left rather a lot to be desired, failing to dwell as much as the legendary Star Trek title. Some have been licensed a excessive “recent” on Rotten Tomatoes, whereas others have been slapped with the dreaded “rotten” label. Right here is Each Star Trek Film, Ranked By Rotten Tomatoes Rating.
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13 Star Trek V: The Closing Frontier (22%)
A Star Trek film the place the crew of the Enterprise is confronted by God might’ve been one thing actually spectacular. It might’ve been a sci-fi film for the ages, reflecting on the way forward for humanity, the validity of faith, and the human want to seek out life’s better that means. Seeing everybody’s reactions to arduous proof of the existence of God might’ve produced breathtaking performances.
Sadly, that wasn’t the case with Star Trek V: The Closing Frontier, a botch job that was unsurprisingly awarded the franchise’s lowest rating by Rotten Tomatoes. The worst factor concerning the movie is that it doesn’t keep true to the characters – Spock and Bones would by no means, ever betray Kirk!
12 Star Trek: Nemesis (37%)
Except for the novelty of seeing a pre-fame Tom Hardy as a clone of Picard created by the Romulans, Star Trek: Nemesis is a reasonably dreadful film. The main focus right here appears to be extra on motion, whereas Star Trek’s power has all the time been offering thought-provoking, philosophical musings about house journey and human discovery, punctuated by motion scenes. With simply motion, it feels hole.
It was so dangerous that it failed on the field workplace and a sequel to comply with it up was canned. The Star Trek canon has completely ignored Nemesis till this yr, when CBS All Entry’ Picard-focused spin-off sequence will lastly acknowledge the occasions of the film and present their aftermath.
11 Star Trek: The Movement Image (42%)
Discuss getting off to a foul begin. Star Trek: The Movement Image kicks off what would develop into a long-running movie sequence by falling into all the trimmings of a film adaptation of a TV present – it appears like an prolonged episode of the sequence, quite than a film, and it fails to take its characters and their arcs to the following stage with the additional runtime allowed by a function movie to discover them.
To high all of it off, there’s principally no motion; the plot is conveyed virtually completely via dialogue (dialogue that appears to have been hashed collectively from random notes jotted down in a writers’ room) and the massive villain is an alien cloud, and you’ll’t precisely punch a cloud or shoot a cloud.
10 Star Trek Generations (47%)
Similar to The Authentic Collection’ solid’s first foray onto the massive display screen was a bitter disappointment, so was The Subsequent Era’s solid’s. A film through which, via a time vortex, James T. Kirk is ready to group up with Jean-Luc Picard to tackle a risk that neither of them might deal with alone may sound wonderful on paper, however in follow, it’s simply one other missed alternative.
The plot of a Star Trek film – and, certainly, any episode of one of many TV reveals price its salt – must be full of life and thrilling, and tragically, the plot of Generations is bland and boring, trotting alongside at a snail’s tempo. The unhappy factor is, followers actually wished it to be good, so the frustration was much more crushing.
9 Star Trek: Revolt (54%)
Someplace within the center is a reasonably correct rating for Revolt. It’s an agreeable film: it doesn’t slap Trekkies within the face like a number of the worst Star Trek motion pictures ( you, The Closing Frontier), however on the identical time, it doesn’t go above and past like the most effective ones do.
The plot is a bit of generic and the script has type of a designed-by-committee vibe, however Patrick Stewart is as nice as ever within the function of Picard (proof that, regardless of how his new CBS All Entry spin-off seems, there’ll nonetheless be one thing to get pleasure from if Stewart brings his A-game). On the entire, this film falls into the “good, not nice” class.
eight Star Trek III: The Seek for Spock (80%)
It made sense to carry Spock again to life, since he’s some of the well-liked characters within the sequence, and it didn’t spoil the emotion of his loss of life scene in The Wrath of Khan, as a result of bringing him again from the useless – stealing the Enterprise, heading to Vulcan, getting Spock’s spirit out of Bones’ head – is tough sufficient that it doesn’t really feel like a retcon.
The threequel has sturdy spiritual themes and lofty, bold takes on the topics of life, loss of life, and rebirth, whereas the motion sequences are well-paced to permit for loads of character moments. The Seek for Spock is way from an ideal film, but it surely’s additionally removed from a foul one.
7 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Nation (81%)
After the harrowing disappointment of The Closing Frontier, The Undiscovered Nation felt like a refreshing return to type, with the suitable steadiness of motion sequences, character moments, and considerate commentary to make it a Star Trek outing to recollect.
In it, a Klingon politician is assassinated and Kirk is blamed, resulting in a wholesome mixture of political allegories and thrilling set items. And on high of being an intriguing story and a greater than first rate film in its personal proper, The Undiscovered Nation affords a bittersweet send-off for the solid of The Authentic Collection, earlier than the line-up of The Subsequent Era would take over the movie sequence.
6 Star Trek Into Darkness (84%)
There have been a couple of franchises within the wake of The Darkish Knight’s success that obtained a darker reboot or sequel, and a variety of them actually didn’t swimsuit that tone. Unbelievable 4 was one among them; Star Trek was one other. Star Trek has all the time been outlined by its social commentary (utilizing future settings to debate present-day points), and this sequel honors that by tackling the topic of terrorism.
Nonetheless, the sooner Star Trek materials was by no means this on-the-nose in its commentary, and this one by no means says something deeper or smarter than “Terrorism is dangerous!” Plus, followers might see the Khan twist coming from a mile away.
5 Star Trek IV: The Voyage House (85%)
In Star Trek IV: The Voyage House, the Enterprise crew returns to Earth when an alien probe makes an attempt to contact humpback whales, then travels again in time upon realizing that humpback whales have gone extinct – it carries an vital message, like all nice Star Trek tales: an environmentalist one.
It takes the crew of the Enterprise out of the futuristic settings that match their futuristic costumes and devices and transplants them into modern San Francisco, a bland and unusually acquainted location, and as loopy because it sounds, it really works spectacularly as a fish-out-of-water comedy. Leonard Nimoy directed this one, so there’s a private contact with the actors (his co-stars) that no different director would have the ability to obtain.
four Star Trek Past (86%)
A refreshing return to a lighter tone with J.J. Abrams out of the director’s chair and off in a galaxy far, distant, Star Trek Past has all the brilliant colours and humor a Trekkie might need. Because the Enterprise is destroyed and the crew is cut up up, stranded and left to their very own units, this threequel appears like a big-budget episode of the outdated sequence.
Nevertheless it’s not an episode of a TV present; it’s a film. So, its narrative must have extra heft and scope than that, which leaves this one feeling a bit of skinny and shallow. Nonetheless, with a script by self-professed Trekkies Simon Pegg and Doug Jung, it’s true to the characters and it could possibly be rather a lot worse.
three Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (89%)
There’s a brand new pattern in well-liked tradition the place, if followers reply negatively to a film, the producers will take heed to them, be taught the suitable classes, and ship a sequel that makes all the mandatory enhancements (nicely, they may in the event that they’re good). We’ve seen it notably within the MCU: Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Thor: Ragnarok and so forth.
A long time in the past, the Star Trek producers did the identical factor. They knocked it out of the park with their first sequel, The Wrath of Khan, an unlimited enchancment over The Movement Image, which many followers had been bitterly disenchanted with. Alfred Hitchcock as soon as stated film is simply nearly as good as its villain, and Khan is an all-time nice sci-fi dangerous man.
2 Star Trek: First Contact (93%)
Simply as The Wrath of Khan redeemed how lame the unique solid’s first film was, First Contact redeemed the TNG solid’s much-despised big-screen debut Generations. The most effective Authentic Collection movies had been directed by Leonard Nimoy (discounting the one horrible one directed by William Shatner), so it made sense that TNG’s first nice film was additionally helmed by a solid member: Jonathan Frakes, in his directorial debut.
The worst Star Trek motion pictures don’t really feel like motion pictures in any respect; they really feel like extra-long TV episodes. Fortunately, First Contact has its sights set greater than that, and higher but, delivered on its ambitions with the Enterprise crew’s cinematic battle towards the mighty Borg.
1 Star Trek (94%)
J.J. Abrams breathed new life into the stagnant Star Trek movie franchise (and outlined the time period “reboot”) together with his big-budget 2009 spectacle. All the pieces concerning the reboot labored: the weaving of outdated storylines with new ones, introducing The Authentic Collection as occasions from an alternate actuality, and recreating iconic places just like the bridge of the Enterprise with slicker visuals than the ‘60s sequence would enable, with out dropping any of its timeless attraction.
Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto nailed the roles of Kirk and Spock, and their palpable chemistry anchored the entire film with a coronary heart as huge as its blockbuster price-tag.
