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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Siegfried: [QB] Overall, I enjoyed [i]Insurrection[/i]. I think it was a fairly okay film, but it definitely had its problems. Some of the pacing was off, and the film seemed to struggle with its identity. Was [i]Insurrection[/i] primarily an action film or a romantic film? I think the film could have benefitted greatly from balancing the romantic elements of the film better with the action elements. I would have liked to see more of the Anij and Picard angle and the reignition of Riker and Troi's relationship. I especially would have liked to have seen more of Worf's commentary on the matter since he was intimately involved with Troi and had just recently lost Jadzia. The action elements were fine for the most part. The special effects for the Enterprise's battle with the Son'a ships was rushed and needed fine-tuning. The biggest flaw is that the Enterprise came off as being a pathetic little ship against the Son'a battleships. Definitely needed to show the Enterprise returning more fire and standing her own against the Son'a ships. This was the perfect opportunity to show the Enterprise testing her limits (like we did the original Enterprise in [i]The Wrath of Khan[/i]). On that note, the film blew it. Some of the humor was a bit unnecessary. Data's "floatation device" gag wasn't all that fitting, but I think the "boob," "pimple," and "shaved beard" jokes did work. It was nice seeing an interaction between Troi and Crusher that was nothing more than "girl talk." Worf's pimple served to show that the crew was beginning to experience the age-reversing effects of the radiation. The "shaved beard" joke was a nice touch of comedy that I, for one, appreciated. The premise of the film was all right, in my opinion. TNG touched on the seizing land issue back in "Journey's End" (the final appearance of Wesley Crusher), but that was a different issue. In that case, the Federation was trying to remove the Native Americans because the planet was being ceded over to the Cardassians. In [i]Insurrection[/i], the Federation was cooperating with a hostile force to help steal the resources of the planet from its inhabitants. This is a more direct allusion to the Europeans seizing the Americas from the natives and the colonists then seizing the land from the European empires. At the time, there was little thought to the objective morality of those events. In the movie, there is time to explore the options and consider what is right to be done. I would have spent a bit more time on that exploration of the issues, though. As I said at the beginning of my post, [i]Insurrection[/i] was enjoyable and entertaining. It did have some problems with pacing and development, and I think those are largely errors in judgement by the producers, director, and writer. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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