SummaryAdmiral Kirk and his crew risk their careers stealing the decommissioned Enterprise to return to the restricted Genesis planet to recover Spock's body.
Directed By:Leonard Nimoy
Written By:Harve Bennett, Gene Roddenberry
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
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58
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Generally Favorable
6.8
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
58
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80
You can even forgive the franchise for cheating the issue of Spock’s death, though another death seems forgotten relatively quickly. The original cast members bring a certain gravitas.
75
This is a good but not great Star Trek movie, a sort of compromise between the first two.
User score
Generally Favorable
6.8
63% Positive
77 Ratings
77 Ratings
34% Mixed
42 Ratings
42 Ratings
3% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
Jan 30, 2017
10
This show took a step to teach a message about how much people would do anything to save their greatest friends. The visual effects are great for this films time. 10/10
Jan 7, 2021
9
Star Trek II saw the death of Khan and Genesis destroyed as it exploded, also Spock's death.... Star Trek III: The Search for Spock is the next chapter as it continues the story, made in 1984 and directed by Leonard Nimoy himself.... Star Trek III: The Search for Spock opens I think with clips from the end of the second film as William Shatner who plays Kirk says goodbye to Spock.... Then eventually they steal the enterprise after docking onto a space station or something and persued by another ship but escape using warp drive. Now they encounter a Klingon ship later and surrender and invite the Klingons to beam aboard a ship that's took so much damage but when the Klingons arrive there's a timer set to self destruct... With the enterprise crew beamed safely onto the Genesis planet the enterprise explodes in space killing the Klingons. Later the enterprise use the Klingon ship instead which is silly.... Spocks an infant on Genesis and somehow his bodies been resurrected from death into life as he ages rapidly from infant to adult... Later the crew are reunited with Spock after some Vulcan ritual or something, it's purpose to give Spock his mind back which Dr. McCoy has.... If you watched Star Trek II you'd understand this..... Great ending having Spock back and great performances by Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner and Christopher Lloyd as Klingon leader....With the usual Nichelle Nichols, James Doohan, Walter Koenig and the rest of the cast and excellently directed, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock is another classic in the series.
70
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock isn't really a movie, it's a happy reunion. The Enterprise is 18 years older and the crew members look like Gray Panthers in space. It may be old stuff, but it's still the right stuff up there. [8 June 1984, p.23]
67
One of the better aspects of Search is that with Spock out of the action, the rest of the crew gets a chance to fill up the vacuum of his absence, and we get a much stronger sense of Kirk, Uhura, Chekov, McCoy, Scotty, and Sulu as a family unit, and not just a bunch of people who work together.
60
This one is really only for Trekkies; others are likely to find it tolerable but yawny.
40
An all-time low for the Enterprise and her crew, with Spock dead, the ship condemned, and everyone else looking about 104. Decent SFX, but a little more action wouldn't have gone amiss.
25
Star Trek III or The Search for Schlock: a mission that renders the eyelids heavy. What else can you say about a movie whose mechanically inept, gelatinous monsters out-act everyone on the screen and whose poignant moments are simply guffawful. Not to put too fine a Vulcan point on it, it was ba-a-a-d. [2 June 1984]
Dec 22, 2024
8
Good but not great in general. Good acting, emotion and dialogue and good everything else except the pacing, though not as bad as the first. However, unlike the first, this one has bad special effects, and the part where the Klingons killed their friend because she knew to much didn't make much sense.
Aug 8, 2018
6
This film is the third of the franchise and addresses the theme of death and resurrection of Spock, something that I honestly could not understand immediately but, being an alien, did not make any knot in my head when I've got it. The script is not bad but it gets even better from the moment the Klingons, a welcome element of action, are added to the story. However, being a film that continues the story of "The Wrath of Khan," it is natural that both are similar at several points. On a technical level, they're almost identical, the sets and costumes are the same and the special effects are still what we could expect at this period. And as for the actors, this film is almost entirely of Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley, actors that the script privileged and that they had the capacity to shine. In the end, we get a film that honors its predecessor without, however, being able to match it.
Jun 8, 2013
6
I like more Star Trek: The Motion Picture because the story is weird ,and i like strange story's the j.j abrams star trek movies ,it has so many action in it.
Mar 5, 2017
3
İlk 2 filmin ardından 3. filmi yapan yapımcılar seriyi kurtarmak yerine daha da kötüye götürüyor ve seri gerçekten benim açımdan bitiyor. Sanırım diğer filmleri izlemek için vakit ayıramayacağım çünkü görselleri hala ve hala çok kötü. Düzeltmeye de hiç niyetleri yok gibi duruyor. Hiç beğenmedim.
Production Company:
- Paramount Pictures
- Cinema Group Ventures
Release Date:Jun 1, 1984
Duration:1 h 45 m
Rating:PG
Tagline:Join the search.
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Awards
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 1 Win & 7 Nominations
Video Software Dealers Association
• 3 Nominations
Hugo Awards
• 1 Nomination
