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Star Trek: Renegades
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So, I watched Renegades last night...my thoughts on it are:
I, like any Trek fan could rip this to shreds quite easily, but I won't - we have to remember it's a fan made film with a limited budget. Based on that, I think it's fair to analyse the film with a softer touch, in comparison to a Hollywood production with a budget the size of a small country's GDP.
To begin, I didn't think it was great at all, which didn't surprise me really. The plot was a cluster****, & I found myself at several points wondering if I'd missed something, as the story seemed to have taken three steps forward instead of one, several times. The idea was decent, but to pull it all off in 90 mins was asking a LOT, and for me, they didn't/couldn't. This needed a simple but engaging plot, but instead they chose a grandiose path that for me was a major planning error.
The plot was also further ruined by the same thing that ruins many non canon stories, this innate need to link every possible known character together in some way. I feel this film was constrained the minute Koenig & Russ gave the green light to be in it - you instantly have a ludicrous situation of a 150 year old human in the same story as a Vulcan from a completely different era - it just doesn't work, not for anyone who takes Trek seriously imo. To have Admiral Chekov at that age running Starfleet Security, colluding with Commander Tuvok who runs Section 31...just screams of badly written fan fiction, & I found it hard to put that aside during the film.
Does nobody ask why Admiral Checkov (head of Starfleet Security) is often alone in his office with a hacker and an assassin for most of the film?? Barring an odd visit from Admiral Paris, Chekov doesn't seem to have many visitors or security around him, considering his important position. His grand daughter had zero point in the film, Zimmerman had zero point in the film, and it all seemed to convolute the plot.
The pacing felt way off, which I was surprised at considering Russ directed this. The sheer amount of fly-by scenes to connect the dots was something else. There was no no natural flow to the film at all, and it seemed to awkwardly connect different scenes with dozens of fly by shots, be it of the Icarus, or the Archer, or the enemy ship etc. Scenes would sometimes clunkily jump from one to another, and it felt like I had to concentrate quite hard to keep up with who was on screen now, where is the scene now, are we here, are we there!
The music was fantastic in it I must admit. It almost has undertones of Horners stunning Wrath of Khan soundtrack, & really helped to balance out the films other weaker elements.
The special effects in this were a mixed bag, some of the effects were actually quite decent (Echeb's arm for example, or the Icarus too looked pretty great), however, other effects were downright awful (the Archer up close actually got pixelated in one scene, some of the phaser fire was shockingly bad where I've seen better on youtube). The space battles were weak for me, if you added it all up it's probably 15 mins of ships throwing photon torpedoes at each other with nothing really resulting from it. The ship phaser fire didn't look great at all, the photons didn't look great, the sound effects for these weren't great, and it felt every bit like a cheap cgi fest really.
The acting, unfortunately echoes the special effects. Some performances were good (Koenig, Russ, Intiraymi, Furlong, Nemec & Graham were solid). Others were decent but had no real point in the film (Picardo springs to mind). Chekovs grand daughter and her friend were awful, and had zero point in the film, some of the crew of the Icarus too were quite bad also. Nice to see Furlong in something after all these years, I didn't even recognise him until near the end of the film!
I feel this had real potential, but this ever present drive to get as many 'names' together & link them all, despite vast age differences is what severely limits the credibility of any story. Having names on board is great for publicity, but the cost is too high if you ask me. If it absolutely HAD to have Russ & Koenig in it, then the obvious and most believable plot would involve time travel of some description. They could have explored the late TMP/pre-TNG era, with Tuvok and co being stranded in time and needing a way to return or something. Anyway, we got what we got. It's clear a TON of effort went into this, & they succeeded in many elements, but unfortunately, failed in many others for me. It was great to see Russ back as Tuvok, he hasn't lost a thing all these years later, and if anything, he should have been in it a lot more.
3/10 I'm afraid
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Wow, that was just awful with some decent actors being given the cheesiest lines and what seemed to be rehearsal one-takes mashed together into a big brown mess of a feature-length film
What a jumbled mess of a trek.
I just hope that Axanar is better than this.0 -
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE2Wgop9VLM
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