Fresh
These are classic directorial occasions, and Nimoy rises to them with fervor, in effect beaming his film up onto a higher pictorial plane than either of its predecessors.
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
A dying planet. A fight for life. The search for Spock.
1984 · 1h 45m · PG
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
Leonard Nimoy
Overview
A surprise visit from Spock's father provides a startling revelation: McCoy is harboring Spock's living essence.
Director and cast
- Leonard Nimoy Director
- William Shatner as Admiral James T. Kirk
- Leonard Nimoy as Capt. Spock/Elevator Voice
- DeForest Kelley as Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy
- James Doohan as Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott
- George Takei as Cmdr. Hikaru Sulu
- Walter Koenig as Cmdr. Pavel Chekov
- Nichelle Nichols as Cmdr. Uhura
- Christopher Lloyd Cast
- Robin Curtis Cast
- Mark Lenard Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
78%
Tomatometer
Fresh
An emotionally satisfying science fiction adventure.
Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten
This 1984 film's few and unimpressive special effects evidently qualify it as science fiction, but the genre it really belongs to is the male weepie: there hasn't been a gooier buddy romance on the screen since Joe Buck took Ratso Rizzo to Miami.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Decent SFX, but a little more action wouldn't have gone amiss.
Derek Adams, Time Out
Fresh
This is a good but not great Star Trek movie, a sort of compromise between the first two.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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