If you're a fan of the '80s action-adventure show, then the movie version should more than meet your expectations Star Trek: The Motion Picture full movie. It's appropriately outrageous in every way, stuff blows up quite often and loudly, and all the iconic images and phrases from the show sneak appearances here and there Star Trek: The Motion Picture full movie. (At one point Hannibal even whips out a Ruger Mini-14, the TV show's trademark assault rifle Star Trek: The Motion Picture full movie.) Director Joe Carnahan obviously had no intention of shitting all over the show, and it shows, from the casting (Neeson and Copley, in particular, are dead ringers for their TV counterparts) to all the little hints and winks that he manages to throw in. Unfortunately, B.A.'s van gets a criminally short appearance before it is pancaked, and although news had original castmembers Dirk Benedict and Dwight Schultz (the original Faceman and Murdock) making appearances, I honestly didn't glimpse them in the movie Star Trek: The Motion Picture full movie. Too bad Carnahan couldn't have given them bigger roles instead of blink-and-you'll-miss cameos Star Trek: The Motion Picture full movie. Don't they deserve that much, if not more? There are few minor narrative glitches, but the most noticeable ones occur within the complex pacing and this is something that a Director's Cut of the film will assuredly resolve. Certainly, when the politics are up front, some things in Helgeland's script get a little convoluted (never to the point of being hard to follow), but Scott brings the disengaged audiences back into the film with the beginnings of the thievery Robin Hood is so famous for; this is an origin story, so there has to be some hinting at what is soon to come from the world's favorite rob-the-rich-give-to-the-poor criminal Star Trek: The Motion Picture full movie. CIA officer Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) looks forward to a happy anniversary evening with her husband (August Diehl), but she's about to get a major hurdle thrown in her path Star Trek: The Motion Picture full movie. Her interrogation of a mysterious Russian defector (Daniel Olbrychski) reveals that a Cold War-era "sleeper agent" is about to reawaken and carry out a diabolical mission. And her name happens to be Evelyn Salt Star Trek: The Motion Picture full movie. Evelyn's colleague Ted Winter (Liev Schreiber) is stunned by the accusation, but fellow agent William Peabody (Chiwetel Ejiofor) wants to keep Evelyn under custody Star Trek: The Motion Picture full movie. Eager to clear her name and ensure her husband's safety, Salt breaks out of her own office building and goes on the run. For much of its running time, Salt effectively, though not particularly intelligently, teases the audience with slivers of Jolie's past Star Trek: The Motion Picture full movie. But intelligence isn't really the point Star Trek: The Motion Picture full movie. Noyce's past excursions into action filmmaking, most notably the Harrison Ford-as-Jack Ryan films, have been a bit flavorless, but here he delivers one from the gut Star Trek: The Motion Picture full movie. Borrowing a page from the North By Northwest playbook, Salt is essentially one endless chase scene, one that doesn't let up and that refreshingly relies far more heavily on real-world stunt work than obvious CGI assistance. Metal twists, flames crackle, and it all feels disarmingly tangible. (Distinctive work from cinematographer Robert Elswit helps as well Star Trek: The Motion Picture full movie.) All of that ends up being worthless because M Star Trek: The Motion Picture full movie. Night Shyamalan seems incapable of directing a movie Star Trek: The Motion Picture full movie. Many of his shots are listless, and without life Star Trek: The Motion Picture full movie. The film is filled with jagged, rotten edits Star Trek: The Motion Picture full movie. And there are a couple of baffling shots, including one long establishing shot of a field that seems to have nothing to do with the scene that comes to follow. There's a lot of inept filmmaking on display, although I think that Night retains a good eye for composition - a number of shots in the movie will make delightful stills Star Trek: The Motion Picture full movie. Maybe he should have become a photographer.