"Star Trek the Motion Picture" is definitely not what you'd be expecting from Star Trek. Especially not from it's first release.
"Star Trek The Motion Picture" takes a lot of inspiration from "2001: A Space Odyssey" which is weird considering it came out two years after "Star Wars" and every sci-fi movie (Still kinda to this day) took inspiration from that. I appreciate this movie was trying to be different and intelligent, like "2001: A Space Odyssey" but what they missed was "2001" wasn't genius because it was slow and had lots or artsy pictures, it was because it was Symbolic and it was one of the first movies to show that cinema could be art. But when you just have long shots and boring dialogue, it doesn't make it artsy. It makes it boring.
Of course it has the memorable Star Trek characters we love and they're all great actors, but they're held back by the rest of the movie, which feels like a mess. It's not a terrible movie, but it's still bad.
4/10
"Star Trek The Motion Picture" takes a lot of inspiration from "2001: A Space Odyssey" which is weird considering it came out two years after "Star Wars" and every sci-fi movie (Still kinda to this day) took inspiration from that. I appreciate this movie was trying to be different and intelligent, like "2001: A Space Odyssey" but what they missed was "2001" wasn't genius because it was slow and had lots or artsy pictures, it was because it was Symbolic and it was one of the first movies to show that cinema could be art. But when you just have long shots and boring dialogue, it doesn't make it artsy. It makes it boring.
Of course it has the memorable Star Trek characters we love and they're all great actors, but they're held back by the rest of the movie, which feels like a mess. It's not a terrible movie, but it's still bad.
4/10