STAR TREK: THE WRATH OF KHAN

As a youngster I loved the original Star Trek TV series, so naturally I have a soft spot for all the subsequent films featuring that cast, even the poorer quality ones.  This one (the second) is one of the best so I was looking forward to seeing it again.

Sad to report, this time around I found it flabby and slow (a bit like the aging cast I hear you say), not at all the way I remembered it.

For a start Kirk is really off his game.  Early on he carelessly allows the Enterprise to be caught off-guard (despite being reminded of the relevant regulations) and then later it doesn't occur to him that Chekov might still be under Khan's mind control. 

The director Nicholas Meyer has his qualities no doubt, but on the evidence of this film they don't include being able to direct exciting action sequences or to create suspense.   

And I was also somewhat underwhelmed by Khan himself who doesn't really get a lot of opportunity to display his supposed superiority.

The final scenes of Spock sacrificing himself still pack an emotional punch however.