Film Reviews by AB

Not a patch on the remake with Matt Damon - this version has no intrigue into the personality of Jason Bourne - you keep being told that he is a cold-hearted killer but a bit of storyline to back this up would have been helpful but the main character doesn't really have many skills. The acting is wooden from Chamberlain and Smith and the supporting characters are very poor - the Treadstone "committee" doesn't lend itself to the storyline very well, making the whole scenario very one-dimensional unless you have read the book or seen the film remake. Flits from country to country and tries to merge itself with the real 'character' of Carlos in its timeline but I would avoid this film unless you want to make comparisons between the two versions

Not really much of a story beyond a child's kidnapping, whose father happens to be an agent for MI6. Poor acting, many scenes shot in semi-darkness. 1970's style dialogue. Not a great film by any stretch of the imagination and Threiller is a mis-representation of the genre.

Having seen the film many years ago, wanted to watch this again but I'm afraid Michael Keeton sort of spoils this film by being too far over the top compared with the other characterisations, which are all low-key.

Some nice bits and pieces - the reception area for the dead, the characters in there - with the ghosts wanting everyone out of their house, which most people would relate to if the supernatural/paranormal existed as portrayed.

As indicated, the Banana Boat Song sequence was different and amusing and the ending was acceptable but to my mind, the film is over-rated to a degree.

Enjoyed this film because it was far more plausible than "Lock, Stock ..." films with characters that you could imagine meeting in pubs etc at the time. Also liked the way that several then-current trends were all brought into play during the film - the bank robbery, the porn industry, corrupt policemen, drug smuggling, political goings on.

A very good British film with a wonderful script by Clement and La Frenais and great character acting by all involved.

Some good one-liners and Sandra Bullock certainly didn't over-act here - I don't mean that in a cynical way but she was relaxed in her role. Storyline was linked to the original film and followed on from that but wasn't the main driving point of the film, which was the interaction between Bullock's character and everyone else.

Passed an evening and I would tell people to watch it rather than avoid it.

Amusing without being hilarious, with dry observations and personal interactions to the fore.

Well worth a watch but the end-game does go a bit OTT!

Quite a boring animation, not nearly as good technically or artistically as any of the genre in the past 10 years or so.

Aimed at probably 10 year-olds, there was not much in background visual jokes to keep adults hooked. The parodies of Star Wars etc were too short to be of any noticeability and the storyline was far too predictable.

Good effects relating to Robot City transport etc.

Only watch if you have children to keep entertained but keep a book handy for yourself.

This is superb - for those of us who have followed the whole franchise from start to the latest, this is amusing, well-acted and fits in nicely with the step forward from the re-boot of the ST experience from the 'young' Kirk etc.

The actors who play Scottie and Bones are superb - the phraseology, intonations, mannerisms, reactions and whole demeanour are perfect for the development from who they are to who they will be.

The scenes are also well-scripted and blend in well with what is already known/what has gone before in the Tv series and films - the scene where Kirk is trapped in the radiation-flooded engine room contrasts perfectly with The Wrath of Khan. Poetic genius.

The timeline is a bit warped (eg the death of Pike, the details of the demise of Khan) but as the various fansites say, it is an alternative to the "Star Trek Prime" but it loses none of the impact.

Ignore the naysayers in other reviews here - sit back and enjoy and engage your brains to remember where all the ideas in this film originated from.

Amusing in parts, learned certainly with Shakespearean quotations and themes and watchable.

The best part though is that this version has the FULL film shown, particularly the last couple of scenes at the conference where the Klingon sniper is shown to be a human in disguise, thus showing that it was a Romulan/Klingon/Federation complete conspiracy. Without this scene, which is always missed out on TV showings, the storyline was incomplete.

The passing of the baton from Kirk to Picard via a (sort of) time vortex that makes everyone so happy that they do not wish to leave - except of course, star ship captains.

Introduces the Next Generation characters into the film franchise and links in well with the people involved in the TNG TV series and their ways of thinking and reacting.

Lots of holes in the plot but sad to see the loss of two of our favourite Klingons, a well-established Captain and *yet another* Enterprise starship crashing. They'll be thinking the name is now jinxed.

As I have stated in previous Trek reviews, I like sci-fi and the franchise series and films but this is to my mind by far the poorest of them. Not much of a storyline (Kirk trying to find Spock for some spurious reasons), the Klingons wanting the secrets of Genesis, the Federation refusing to allow Kirk his project, but all in all a poor storyline, wooden acting, not as much humour as in the other films and lacking in emotional effects. Watch it to continue the sequence but as a standalone film, poor

The second in the Trek franchise but with a whole range of emotions associated with it. More gruesome than the series or films, sadness, light-hearted in places, original ideas with the Genesis project.

As a lover of all thins sci-fi, not my favourite film, not even my favourite in the Trek franchise but a pleasant film with few CGI effects and more of a storyline than others

Hard to believe that this was made in 1979 -I remember going to see it at the cinema.

Storyline is now well-known but was very good at the time and it still raises some hairs on the back of my neck in the final scenes down in VGER's centre.

As a franchise ST was way ahead of its time and so was the film - it and Star Wars really made science fiction a genre to be recognised, with the advances then in early CGI etc.

The Director's cut that I saw from here was not as good as the version I saw in the cinema as this version reduced the early encounters by the Klingons with VGER to the detriment of the excitement.

Still - I enjoyed reminiscing back to my youth.

Tries far too hard to be gross, over-the-top and being a spoof of a genre.

Not very amusing at all and struggles to be rated as a comedy.

Watch it, suffer it, then forget it.