Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 1982
	Director: Nicholas Meyer (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)
	Actors: William Shatner (Loaded Weapon 1, Airplane 2), Leonard Nimoy (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Transformers 3 Dark of the Moon), DeForest Kelley
	Country: USA
	Genre: SF
	Conditions of visioning: 01.08.2013, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: Kirk (Shatner) is now Admiral. He will reunite with the crew of the Enterprise when the base hosting the mysterious project Genesis calls for help.
Review: The spirit of the movie is quite in the line of Star Trek I: The Motion Picture, but with a more classical story of a bad guy with a destructive weapon and the crew of the Enterprise going after him. The images look as good as in the first movie, but there are less optical effects and we spend less time contemplating the ships. This is replaced by more development of the relationships between the characters, that help you feeling more involved even if you don't know the original TV-series. Shatner still looks like he is possessed by his role. And the story is told in a natural slow way that keeps you attentive. James Horner is a good succesor to Jerry Goldsmith for the sountrack, which is an important element in those movies. The character of Khan (here played by Ricardo Montalban) was also central to the recent Star Trek Into Darkness, but the story in not the same at all. From what I read, the story of the J. J. Abrams movie is inspired from the original Star Trek TV-episode in which Khan appeared. I noticed that J. J. Abrams tooks some other elements from this movie for his reboot: the Kobayashi-Maru test, the bad guy holding Kirk responsible for the death of his wife, the worm placed in one's ear to control his actions, or the ending in the Enterprise's reactor. When I saw the (unexpected) ending, it reminded me of something... maybe I had heard about it or have already seen Star Trek III: The search for Spock many years ago. I will soon find out.
Rating: 7 /10