Okay so First
Contact’s a hard act to follow in anyone’s books but even if it wasn’t,
Insurrection would still have been a bad film.
Basically Picard and co fight some facelift-obsessed aliens to secure
the fountain of youth and ensure Picard’s new bird gets to literally live
happily ever after.
Cue lots of
explosions and people screaming complete with a space battle that’s more of
space happy slappy but does have one really big explosion. Throw in a little moralising, a corrupt admiral
and you’ve still got a crappy film.
Worse, Patrick Stewart’s an executive producer, which can’t be seen as a
career highlight.
Given that the
plot is essentially that high-ranking figures in the Federation have sold out
the principles they’re supposed to stand for, this could have been a really
good film; a completely different yet equally brilliant follow-on to its
critically acclaimed predecessor.
Indeed the original script had Picard losing everything but his
principles, with his ship, his career and his reputation all going down the
space chute.
Instead we were
given a neutered down version that provides such delight as tips on safe
shaving of partners in the bath, how to rumba and the best way to bash a drone
with a phaser rifle (okay, that’s actually a good bit). Still there are worse films out there (Star
Wars Episode I for example, which came out the same year), but really this film
is at best a backing track to the much better Generations and First
Contact. If you want to skip it and go
straight to Nemesis, no one’s going to mind.
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