*WARNING - POSSIBLE SPOILERS* If this film had been only an
hour long with commercials and I had watched it at home, it may
have been good. Here we have a film that has a great and
intriguing opening on Romulus. It then cuts to the main cast of
TNG which was the logical progression. That would have been
fine, but they decided to speak and it was from that point onward
that inanity after inanity would spew forth to the end of the film! Picard discovers the film's threat to be his clone. Data discovers a
version of himself made before his time. In the several minutes to
follow we are repeatedly hit over the head with, "I'm your mirror! No
I'm YOUR mirror! No, it's ME!" and "He may be me, but he's not me
because I'M a better me than HE is!" and "How can I be so sure
that I'm the me I should be and not him?" These dances of
supposed depth and inner reflection are revisited so many times
with no furtherance to the storyline that they go beyond cerebral
stimulus and go straight to evoking ennui. These constant bouts of
what the writers may have thought as "clever" and "deep" reflection
could have been completely cut knocking the running time down by
at least a half hour. Finally, it would be refreshing someday to see a villain who is
determined to carry out his greater goal to the exclusion of
everything else. Shinzon's (Picard's clone) personal goal is to get
a complete blood transfusion from Picard and, ultimately, kill him
so that he, Shinzon, would be the only Jean Luc in existence. His
greater goal, the one he shares with his compatriots, the Remans,
is to destroy the Earth with a weapon he's carrying on his ship.
Now, this ship is so formidable that it could either a) whiz by any
and all Starfleet vessels or b) destroy them outright in order to lay
waste to the Earth with the push of a few buttons and a seven
minute countdown. Of course, Shinzon's cronies are blown off and
the ship never makes it to Earth because Shinzon is too busy
trying to smash his "mirror image"! Feh! The ending was anticlimactic and the death of Data was as
poignant as a tumbleweed blowing through town! Who cares if
Data's dead since his predecessor's walking around with Data's
memories and experiences floating around in his data banks
somewhere? If they decide to make another TNG movie, I'm sure
Geordi will come up with some widget that'll make B4 as good as,
if not better, than Data.
hour long with commercials and I had watched it at home, it may
have been good. Here we have a film that has a great and
intriguing opening on Romulus. It then cuts to the main cast of
TNG which was the logical progression. That would have been
fine, but they decided to speak and it was from that point onward
that inanity after inanity would spew forth to the end of the film! Picard discovers the film's threat to be his clone. Data discovers a
version of himself made before his time. In the several minutes to
follow we are repeatedly hit over the head with, "I'm your mirror! No
I'm YOUR mirror! No, it's ME!" and "He may be me, but he's not me
because I'M a better me than HE is!" and "How can I be so sure
that I'm the me I should be and not him?" These dances of
supposed depth and inner reflection are revisited so many times
with no furtherance to the storyline that they go beyond cerebral
stimulus and go straight to evoking ennui. These constant bouts of
what the writers may have thought as "clever" and "deep" reflection
could have been completely cut knocking the running time down by
at least a half hour. Finally, it would be refreshing someday to see a villain who is
determined to carry out his greater goal to the exclusion of
everything else. Shinzon's (Picard's clone) personal goal is to get
a complete blood transfusion from Picard and, ultimately, kill him
so that he, Shinzon, would be the only Jean Luc in existence. His
greater goal, the one he shares with his compatriots, the Remans,
is to destroy the Earth with a weapon he's carrying on his ship.
Now, this ship is so formidable that it could either a) whiz by any
and all Starfleet vessels or b) destroy them outright in order to lay
waste to the Earth with the push of a few buttons and a seven
minute countdown. Of course, Shinzon's cronies are blown off and
the ship never makes it to Earth because Shinzon is too busy
trying to smash his "mirror image"! Feh! The ending was anticlimactic and the death of Data was as
poignant as a tumbleweed blowing through town! Who cares if
Data's dead since his predecessor's walking around with Data's
memories and experiences floating around in his data banks
somewhere? If they decide to make another TNG movie, I'm sure
Geordi will come up with some widget that'll make B4 as good as,
if not better, than Data.