Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) poster
1982 · sci-fi · adventure · action

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Directed by Nicholas Meyer1h 53m1982
ElsewhereIMDb7.7134kRT87%Metacritic68TMDB7.42k
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Neutral, breathless, measured sci-fi / adventure, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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The starship Enterprise and its crew is pulled back into action when old nemesis, Khan, steals a top secret device called Project Genesis.

Our read · Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded sci-fi · adventure · action entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want peak Star Trek: naval adventure, friendship, and operatic sci-fi stakes.

ends bittersweetit stays with yougrabs you earlygrips from the openattention 4/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violence

Skip it tonightYou don't know Trek basics or hate submarine-style space battles.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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