1982 – THEATRICAL VERSION
2002 – DIRECTOR’S EDITION
DIRECTOR: Nicholas Meyer
The best of the classic Trek movies, but that’s like telling you how to suck eggs. This one though, is as much a brilliantly paced melodrama as a franchise movie.
Great action, acting, direction and brilliant special effects that hold up as well today as the they did back in 1982.
The DIRECTOR’S EDITION simply restores several small scenes to the movie, and to me it was worth every second. Subtle changes that don’t affect the pacing and add to the characterisations. The best kind of director’s cut.
[...] in a completely unnecessary piece of dialogue where Sentinel reprises Spock’s line from Star Trek II, “…The needs of the many, out way the needs of the few”. This was a quote to far [...]
[...] in a completely unnecessary piece of dialogue where Sentinel reprises Spock’s line from Star Trek II, “…The needs of the many, out way the needs of the few”. This was a quote to far [...]
[...] to their views, concluding that 1. was boring, though somewhere had an interesting story; 2. was the best; 3. could have been better; 4. was up there but not the best; 5. was hilarious (The [...]
[...] one as Kirk (William Shatner) and Khan (Ricardo Montalban) duked it out in the previous outing, Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan, and Spock (Leonard Nimoy) movingly sacrificed himself to save the Enterprise. His body was then [...]
[...] U.S.S. Enterprise and a guest starring ship of the episode or film, such as the U.S.S. Reliant from Star Trek II, for example. But also in this previous outing, the Enterprise was destroyed, so as a child, [...]
[...] to expect, but this is director, Nicholas Meyer all over, back in the director’s chair after Star Trek II and co-writing The Voyage Home, he has the midas touch when it comes to Star [...]
[...] one as Kirk (William Shatner) and Khan (Ricardo Montalban) duked it out in the previous outing, Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan, and Spock (Leonard Nimoy) movingly sacrificed himself to save the Enterprise. His body was then [...]
[...] U.S.S. Enterprise and a guest starring ship of the episode or film, such as the U.S.S. Reliant from Star Trek II, for example. But also in this previous outing, the Enterprise was destroyed, so as a child, [...]
[...] to expect, but this is director, Nicholas Meyer all over, back in the director’s chair after Star Trek II and co-writing The Voyage Home, he has the midas touch when it comes to Star [...]
[...] Trek (2009) turns up, twice!, but surely if Star Trek was being honoured, then Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan (1982) should have made the list over the latest breakthrough [...]
[...] simple fun and flamboyant excitement of seeing Star Trek re-imagined on such a cinematic scale. Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan (1982) is still the highest of high water marks of Star Trek history and certainly in its cinematic [...]
[...] feel is shy of Gene Roddenberry’s original series, or even the high point of the movies, Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan (1982). I must admit, even though critically, my rating has not increased since my review back in 2009, I [...]
[...] against Star Trek: First Contact (1996), the second and best Next Generation movie, but what about Star Trek II (1982)? Is it that The Wrath Of Khan is just so good that it’s beyond comparison or was the reviewer [...]
[...] STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN 1982 (Nicholas Meyer) Star Trek’s first REAL movie, after The Motion Picture failed to capture the magic of the show, Star Trek II is as influential as The Empire Strikes Back in sequel terms. A simple storyline relying on meta knowledge and melodrama, this may not work well in its own right but as a franchise movie, this is one of the benchmarks. “Khaaaaaaaaaan!“ [...]
[...] unparalleled success of Star Trek began, spawning the much more successful and tonally accurate Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan (1982), leading to Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) and Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987 – [...]
[...] STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN (1982) [...]
[…] Before Bane, there was Shinzon. Well, not that there’s any real comparison beside that a young Tom Hardy cut his teeth here, in the role on Shinzon. It has been over ten years since I sat down to watch “a generation’s final journey” on a Saturday afternoon at my local Odeon. Seen as a let down by many Star Trek fans, I couldn’t disagree more. Granted, it’s not First Contact (1996), which is probably the best example of The Next Generation TV series’ melding with the movie franchise, creating a truly theatrical vision of the series in a manner not dissimilar to Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan (1982). […]
[…] new Klingon Bird Of Preys, Section 31 and so on… But what about Khaaaaaaaaaan! The homage to Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan (1982) was expected and the second half of the film moves clearly to that territory but actually TOO […]
[…] director and cast are doing, this is it. Horner has always been one of my favourites, ever since Star Trek’s II (1982) and III (1984), but this was on a new level, with a new sound for him. To me the two styles are […]