Video: Siskel & Ebert: STAR TREK V (1989)

I stumbled upon this 4 minute video of Gene Siskel & Roger Ebert reviewing the then-new STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER movie. If you watch, you'll hear them use words like "mess" and "no energy" and so on. I won't quibble. STAR TREK V may have had some good scenes (my own sister likes the "row, row, row your boat" bits that bracket the film, and I like some of the dialogue -- "Captain, not in front of the Klingons." "Don't you know a jail break when ye see one?"), but the picture does not hang together. Heck, "the Enterprise crew meets God" idea was a bad one to begin with. You can't deliver on meeting THE God. Not in a mainstream movie.

Here's hoping for better reviews 20 years on, for that new STAR TREK movie.