Search - Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country on DVD

Great movie, amazing treatment on blu-ray

W. Paul W. | Amarillo, TX | 03/11/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I'll say first that I'm a heretic. I think this is the best of the original series movies; I prefer it to Wrath of Kahn. You've got the best of TOS here; the friendly three way conflict between Kirk, Spock and McCoy. The enjoyable over acting by Shatner, character driven conflicts...it's the best elements of star trek. There's not one big villain but rather an ad-hoc group threatened by a loss in power and prestige with the outbreak of peace. The Cold War overtones are hard to miss for me, as a history buff, but they don't detract from the movie. I rather like this style of villain(s); they're not evil masterminds but simply people threatened by changes. It's far more believable than some of the uber-villains in other Trek movies.

The treatment that this got on Blu-Ray I'd call the gold standard. I've seen better picture and audio quality, particularly from Pixar...but this is still *very* good, far better than many. No artificating, sounds great on my speakers (A decent 2.1 setup attached to a Harmon receiver) and looks wonderful on my 50" 1080p set. It's probably as good as they could do with the source material.

The extras...oh man did they do us justice. Here's a note to other movie stuidos: If you do extras, do them like this. I can't summarize them all in this review, but they went heavy on the documentary/interview stuff as well as including the traditional directory commentaries. I enjoyed the one about Klingons, Shakespear and translations between the two...that was just classic. There's 3 or 4 hours all told of documentary footage, with intelligent, informative commentary. For a Trek fan those alone would almost be worth the purchase price. They talk with costume designers, linguist, FX, stuntmen, actors...it's amazing to see what really goes into a major motion picture."