Arguably the best of all the
Star Trek motion pictures. It has some of the best
performances of any of the
movies, especially those of
Shatner (surprising) and
Montalban (is that
his chest?).
Khan just makes such a perfect
villain, with his
blind hatred and
cool catch
phrases ("
Revenge is a dish best served
cold, it is very cold in
space"). This movie also had by far the best space
battles (with the possible exception of the
ST:VI cloaked
Bird-of-Prey battle). It seems surprising to me that this was the movie that followed the first one (only
ST:V was worse), it having so much more
life,
creativity, and
drama.
There was one glaring
continuity problem, however, that only die hard ST fans would catch on to. In the scene where
Chekov first finds Khan, Khan mentions that he "never forgets a
face" when he is
talking to Chekov. Unfortunately for the
writers,
Walter Koenig had not yet joined the series when the original
episode "
Space Seed" was shot. Khan was gone long before he ever could have met him.
Other than that it was very well done, and is still, in my opinion, the best of the Star Trek
films.