Star Trek Insurrection
It's time to journey one more time with the Enterprise. Can this one be pulled off without a hitch? Let's find out.
The film opens on a planet that has forbidden all kinds of machines. The people are playing and eating without noticing that Star Fleet is keeping an eye on them via an invisible building hidden in the hills. Suddenly, one of the androids that Star Fleet sent out to study the planet has begun to malfunction. Several members try to take it out and fail. The android is shown to be Data (Brent Spiner) who then proceeds to expose Star Fleet's invisible building. They get in contact with Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) and inform him of Data's problems. He goes after him with Worf (Michael Dorn) and capture him. Once he's taken back to the Enterprise, they question what could have led to his malfunction. A handful of the crew beam onto the planet and introduce themselves to the locals. They all follow Data to where he was going before his malfunction and discover a hidden ship. They deduce that whoever is in charge of the ship will kidnap the locals. So now Picard and his crew set out to find whoever it is that is planning to kidnap the population and stop them.
There's not a whole lot good I can say about this movie, so I'll get it over with quickly. The only good thing I could find with the movie was the action scenes which ranged from decent to good.
Before I bash this movie for all of its problems, I'm just going to say that I'm not a big Star Trek fan. As of the time of this review, I have yet to have seen any of the previous Star Trek films or TV shows. So for any problems with this movie involving characters not acting how they would, go to a different review. For those that are still reading, I'll begin with the costumes. The alien race on the planet doesn't really look alien. They look just as human as the crew on the Enterprise, well except for Worf. While I can understand that something like the show could pull this off being a low budget TV show, this is a multi-million dollar movie. Having no costume for an alien race is unacceptable. Just give them a big forehead or something. Don't just make them human. This movie is also full of a lot of sub-plots that go nowhere and things happening that have no explanation behind them. For example, at one point in the movie, one of the alien women begins to have feelings for Picard. While they're having some kind of romantic moment, she slows down time. It's not the movie itself slowing down to express the emotions of the characters, it's the woman somehow slowing down time. How does she do it? Picard even asks her how she's able to do it, but she just replies with "No more questions". Why? There's so much that happens here that doesn't make any sense, but the writers refused to even give a BS answer to. Heck, I'd buy that she's manipulating the area around her or something like that or only adult women on the planet can do it since none of the other characters do it. Hell, make it so that she's a different race. JUST GIVE US SOMETHING!!!! These people are also gigantic hypocrites when it comes to their no technology belief since we plainly see that they have a dam and a whole mechanism that works it. If this race did completely forbid any kind of technology, they wouldn't have a dam and their clothes certainly wouldn't be that well put together. Since this is running a bit long, I won't go over the crappy special effects or some of the more idiotic dialogue.
Should you go see Star Trek Insurrection? Unless you're a die-hard Star Trek fan that needs to see all of the movies, I'd recommend staying away from this one. The plot makes no sense, the costumes are cheap, and the characters get silly for the most idiotic of reasons. This isn't an enjoyable time for anyone really. It's just flat out boring.
The film opens on a planet that has forbidden all kinds of machines. The people are playing and eating without noticing that Star Fleet is keeping an eye on them via an invisible building hidden in the hills. Suddenly, one of the androids that Star Fleet sent out to study the planet has begun to malfunction. Several members try to take it out and fail. The android is shown to be Data (Brent Spiner) who then proceeds to expose Star Fleet's invisible building. They get in contact with Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) and inform him of Data's problems. He goes after him with Worf (Michael Dorn) and capture him. Once he's taken back to the Enterprise, they question what could have led to his malfunction. A handful of the crew beam onto the planet and introduce themselves to the locals. They all follow Data to where he was going before his malfunction and discover a hidden ship. They deduce that whoever is in charge of the ship will kidnap the locals. So now Picard and his crew set out to find whoever it is that is planning to kidnap the population and stop them.
There's not a whole lot good I can say about this movie, so I'll get it over with quickly. The only good thing I could find with the movie was the action scenes which ranged from decent to good.
Before I bash this movie for all of its problems, I'm just going to say that I'm not a big Star Trek fan. As of the time of this review, I have yet to have seen any of the previous Star Trek films or TV shows. So for any problems with this movie involving characters not acting how they would, go to a different review. For those that are still reading, I'll begin with the costumes. The alien race on the planet doesn't really look alien. They look just as human as the crew on the Enterprise, well except for Worf. While I can understand that something like the show could pull this off being a low budget TV show, this is a multi-million dollar movie. Having no costume for an alien race is unacceptable. Just give them a big forehead or something. Don't just make them human. This movie is also full of a lot of sub-plots that go nowhere and things happening that have no explanation behind them. For example, at one point in the movie, one of the alien women begins to have feelings for Picard. While they're having some kind of romantic moment, she slows down time. It's not the movie itself slowing down to express the emotions of the characters, it's the woman somehow slowing down time. How does she do it? Picard even asks her how she's able to do it, but she just replies with "No more questions". Why? There's so much that happens here that doesn't make any sense, but the writers refused to even give a BS answer to. Heck, I'd buy that she's manipulating the area around her or something like that or only adult women on the planet can do it since none of the other characters do it. Hell, make it so that she's a different race. JUST GIVE US SOMETHING!!!! These people are also gigantic hypocrites when it comes to their no technology belief since we plainly see that they have a dam and a whole mechanism that works it. If this race did completely forbid any kind of technology, they wouldn't have a dam and their clothes certainly wouldn't be that well put together. Since this is running a bit long, I won't go over the crappy special effects or some of the more idiotic dialogue.
Should you go see Star Trek Insurrection? Unless you're a die-hard Star Trek fan that needs to see all of the movies, I'd recommend staying away from this one. The plot makes no sense, the costumes are cheap, and the characters get silly for the most idiotic of reasons. This isn't an enjoyable time for anyone really. It's just flat out boring.