Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Review
Unlike the previous movies other than the original, this one does not take place right after the last movie. Indeed, this movie has more similarities (I find) with the original than the other ones. The whole tone of it has the lonesome, old dog feel that you felt for the protagonists in the original movie; one where it feels sad because you know the end of their careers is coming. In fact, knowing full well this is the last movie with these guys and despite that, I could tell this was the last rodeo with this crew the entire movie because they kept hinting at it in kind of a sad, romanticized way, which was beautiful to watch. The quality of this movie was great, and being someone who deeply appreciates intensive political ramifications in movies for seemingly important events, I was glad to see that finally, after multiple movies of political absence, this one was going to focus on the consequences of recent galactic events as well as how the galaxy can push forward with peace. I found the sudden and imminent threat of extinction for the Klingon's to be kind of a shock out of no where that made the political atmosphere even more interesting; a proud race reduced to either going out in a blaze of glory or sucking up their pride and admitting the need to assimilate and dismantle their power. This movie felt almost like a political thriller, a "Hunt for Red October" of the Star Trek Universe, if you will, with multiple people from various races having secret or open pledges with each other. This movie isn't the first time I've seen a story where groups that hate each other team up with beings from another group in order to sabotage peace talks so they can keep fighting, but it may be the oldest movie I've seen it in, and I really appreciate what this movie did there because of it.
9/10
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