Diagonaldi
Very well executed
RyothChatty
ridiculous rating
Comwayon
A Disappointing Continuation
InCole
In short Star Trek Generations is simply a big missed opportunity. Considering that just 3 years earlier Undiscovered Country came out and was hands down among the best Star Trek movies. This is a very weak follow-up of that film.The opening of the film is quite OK but from there it just goes downhill. There is a lot of boring screen time filler scenes that simply do not serve a purpose and while the movie is redeemed by some really great scenes and some elements that make Star Trek so great. Sadly this is just a film with so much missed opportunity.Considering they managed to bring together Kirk and Picard into one film you would expect so, so much more. Even if it was a film with just Picard it would have been quite mediocre.It just lacks focus and direction in the script writing and in general it just feels like they really had to pull out all movie clichés just to get the story to work.It is watchable and it can be entertaining at times so I would still say to give it a watch especially if you are doing a Star Trek Bluray marathon (like I am doing) but just be prepared to experience a mediocre Star Trek film.
Hitchcoc
I agree that this is far from the best of the Star Trek movies, but it has an interesting premise, the acting is good, and it gives us a cinematic transition from one era to another. Once Einstein gave us the business of time warping and being able to slip into alternate universes and revisit previous places, even paralleling the the current characters, it left everything wide open. I don't know what the big deal is with Jean Luc Picard crying. He's not a robot. Kirk was really a pretty one dimensional character with very little emotional baggage. That's great. Not everyone is Kirk nor should they be. Ultimately, we have a group of very creative people putting together a threat to the universe, a puzzle that must be solved. Through that aforementioned fabric, two heroes emerge and solve things. I have to get a little political here. I am so tired of people who are so wrapped up in these things that they actually get hostile. It's a review of a movie. Get out of the house more.
WakenPayne
I've just got off the heels of talking about the reboot films and I don't think they're as worth watching as the original stuff. While this does have problems in terms of story, it can sometimes get pretty interesting. The plot is that Kirk saves people from an anomaly in space before seemingly dying. 78 years later Captain Picard saves scientists from an attack where they seemingly left. Turns out the link between them that wasn't on the previous shows is Doctor Sorrin played by Malcolm McDowell, an alien who can live up to 300 years who will do anything and everything to get back into The Nexus, a place where the ultimate fantasies of anyone who enters it come true but any ship that enters it gets severely damaged at best, being that it's coming back he decides to altar the gravity and thereby it's path by imploding suns, killing at least trillions. It's up to Picard (and eventually Kirk) to stop Sorrin and put things right. If there's any complaints it would be that the story... lapses. Picard in this has to deal with being the last of them after his brother and family die in a fire... I've only watched the first season of TNG but the way it's done is so... rushed I didn't even know he had a brother. The same thing can be said for the climax of the movie wherein it's established Time doesn't exist in The Nexus so they can hop to anywhere at anytime so they go back to the time before Sorrin entered the Nexus, I don't know if this contradicts how time travel in Star Trek works but why not go back to the first sun he wiped out or the other lives he put in jeopardy in Kirk's time? And shouldn't there be 2 Picard's at the confrontation then? It also does seem unbalanced because Kirk really is barely in this or is any other cast member of the original series. So if you want that then this doesn't really deliver. This is a lot better than the newer films I've seen so far so I might recommend watching it if you're a fan of the older stuff but for me personally, if you want to see a better Next Generation film, watch First Contact or if you like the original series either Wrath Of Khan or The Undiscovered Country.
Thomas Drufke
Sometimes a franchise and its characters have run its course to a point where new faces and fresh ideas are needed. Though the Star Trek franchise as a whole was at a high in 1994 with two acclaimed TV series airing and the films coming off a great finale in 'The Undiscovered Country', to me, 'Generations' wasn't the proper next step to take.Sure, it's hard to let go of beloved characters, but 'The Undiscovered Country' felt like the perfect send off for all of the original cast members, including Captain Kirk. Nonetheless he was brought back to past the torch to the next crew to man the Enterprise. Of course, that group being the cast from The Next Generation. Which is exactly where the film has most of its problems.Attempting to balance both timelines, Kirks being 75 years or so earlier, and Captain Picard's (Patrick Stewart) being present day, sometimes the film feels jumbled and bunched together. In other words, there's plenty of set up with the main antagonist played by Malcom McDowell, but the pay-off takes a great deal of time and exposition to get to. It's a much different universe, but Star Wars did an impeccable job blending both casts into The Force Awakens, so that's more along the lines of what I was hoping for.With all that being said, the new cast from the TV series definitely deserve their own individual film (which is obviously what they got a few years later). It's impossible to top the original crew, but there's enough personalities and likable characters, including Stewart's stern but sympathetic Picard.As far as the actual plot itself goes, it pretty much follows the same Star Trek formula, except for the trippy Nexus sequence where Picard and Kirk are stuck in a time loop. It's the most talked about and controversial scenes from the film, and for good reason. I don't necessarily think the sequence works the way it supposed to, but it is where we end up getting the most emotional pay off. So overall, Generations is a middle of the road Star Trek adventure, but at the very least, it gives the new crew some time to shine.+Picard & Kirk+Nexus+Beautiful score-Choppy first half-Formulaic6.3/10
