Star Trek 2: The Wrath Of Khan
It is the 23rd century. Admiral Kirk's midlife crisis is interrupted by the return of an old enemy looking for revenge and a potentially destructive device. But Khan is back. Aided by his exiled band of genetic supermen, Khan - brilliant renegade of 20th century Earth - has raided Space Station Regula One, stolen a top secret device called Project Genesis, wrested control of another Federation starship, and now schemes to set a most deadly trap for his old enemy Kirk... with the threat of a universal Armageddon!
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June 18, 2016
Star Trek II manages to be both pensive and action-packed.
July 31, 2013
Leonard Nimoy has rarely been so moving.
May 19, 2008
Star Trek II is a very satisfying space adventure, closer in spirit and format to the popular TV series than to its big-budget predecessor.
May 21, 2013
This isn't great "for a Star Trek movie", it's one of the best sci-fi adventure films of the post-Star Wars era.
June 24, 2006
The net effect, between embarrassed guffaws, is incredulity: a movie at once post-TV and pre-DW Griffith.
May 03, 2009
There is something comfortable, even old-shoeish, about the new film, a sense, appropriate to its theme of coming to terms with middle age, that all aboard are pleasurably rediscovering their best selves.
October 23, 2004
Although I liked the special effects in the first movie, they were probably not the point; fans of the TV series wanted to see their favorite characters again, and Trek II understood that desire and acted on it.
June 05, 2007
If only director Nicholas Meyer had grasped the implications of his tale more fully and enthusiastically, this might have become a classic piece of cornball SF poetry, but as it stands the tepid acting and one-set claustrophobia take a heavy toll.
July 31, 2013
It was Star Trek II that put the franchise on the right track as the spirit of Gene Roddenberry's 60s television series was harnessed to spectacular effect.
September 07, 2016
A brisk, handsomely designed film in which its hardware, sturdy as it is, never overwhelms its humanity.
July 31, 2013
The merely curious are warned. If Star Trek: The Motion Picture showed little of the Enterprise of the culty TV series, this sequel is at times a flat-out Khan-job.
