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Star Trek: Insurrection
Paramount Pictures

Star Trek: Insurrection reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 64 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
7.5 out of 10
based on 19 reviews
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MPAA RATING: PG for sci-fi action violence, mild language and sensuality

Starring Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, and F. Murray Abraham

The ninth film in the Star Trek series. A Federation investigation of a planet is actually a cover for an insidious plot to destroy its people and steal their secret for longevity. (Paramount)


GENRE(S): Sci-fi  
WRITTEN BY: Michael Piller (also story)
Rick Berman (story)
Gene Roddenberry (Star Trek)
 
DIRECTED BY: Jonathan Frakes  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: May 13, 2002 
Video: May 21, 2002 
Theatrical: December 11, 1998 
RUNNING TIME: 103 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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88
San Francisco Examiner George Powell
The maturity of the Star Trek saga and its remarkable fan base have combined to produce a polished film that shines like a crown jewel in the Star Trek firmament.
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80
Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector
The extravagant makeup and special effects are actually unobtrusive because they're demanded by the pleasantly formulaic story, whose conflicts -- and broad, innocuous political allegory -- justify the heartwarming resolution.
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80
The New York Times Stephen Holden
Insurrection is breezily paced, and Michael Piller's screenplay has enough good-natured humor to keep things from bogging down into sentimental pomposity.
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80
The New Yorker Bruce Diones
Paramount's most lucrative long-running franchise (nine films in nineteen years) shows little wear and tear in this installment, perhaps the most colorful and relaxed of the series.
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75
ReelViews James Berardinelli
The best Star Trek stories are allegorical - in addition to telling an involving story, they're about something other than going into space and blowing up enemy ships. Insurrection continues that tradition.
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75
San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack
Star Trek: Insurrection is out there where the imagination collides with roaring spaceships, exotic planets, wonderfully nutty costumes, a few choice jokes and some fascinating ideas.
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70
The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
In just about every way, Insurrection seems as if everyone involved is still stuck in the weekly grind of turning out the series, but the results don't disappoint too terribly.
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70
Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Star Trek: Insurrection lacks the adrenalized oomph of its predecessor, but no adventure of the Starship Enterprise is without its gee-whiz affability.
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70
TV Guide John Walsh
It's an interesting story, more accessible to non-Trekkers than previous entries.
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70
Film Threat Ron Wells
This movie best exploits the strengths of the show as well, such as the chemistry among the cast.
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70
Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
Outsiders will find this schtick-laden, mildly exciting adventure yarn an inoffensive triviality, while fans will savor one more encounter with Picard, Riker, Data, Worf and the gang, replete with all the well-worn character tics and platitudinous parables about the contemporary world they expect.
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63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
Rather than build on the new momentum, this one's a bit more of a cruise-control effort.
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63
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Trekkers will be pleased by new characters and stunning special effects.
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60
Village Voice Gary Dauphin
The latest Star Trek flick, Insurrection, is the 9th, and although it doesn't suck as completely as some ignoble odd-numbered low points, it doesn't exactly boldly go where no one has gone before.
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60
Variety Joe Leydon
Even though Frakes is back, Star Trek: Insurrection plays less like a stand-alone sci-fi adventure than like an expanded episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation."
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50
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
There is a certain lackluster feeling to the way the key characters debate the issues, and perhaps that reflects the suspicion of the filmmakers that they have hitched their wagon to the wrong cause.
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50
LA Weekly Greg Burk
With its young-vs.-old plot conflicts, its vid-game-reminiscent setups and its prominent positioning of a 12-year-old in the cast, the ninth Star Trek movie explicitly stalks kids, and probably snares neither them nor their parents.
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50
Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
That's the moral nut of this highly unexceptional episode, a midlife production in which each Enterprise crew member does his or her vaudeville act.
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40
Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
A muddled, gimpy mess, filled with the worst sort of Trek clichés and ill-timed humorous outbursts.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 7.5 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Chris gave it an8:
Of all the Star Trek films I like this one the best. The plot is, perhaps, a little tame compared to the others but thats why I like it - its not the same. I think the soundtracks better too.

Pat C. gave it a 5:
For all the work that was put into this film, it would have been relatively no effort at all to throw in a little substance.

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