When Star Trek: Enterprise was released back in Season 4, it became one of the rare instances of a film written by John Malone to not make much of an impact with audiences or critics. I honestly did not care much for this film when it first came out. Aside from a few actors (Jason Clarke, Lily James, Hugh Laurie and Michael Jai White) the cast feels ill-equipped to handle a film of this scale. Even talented actors like Michael Stuhlbarg feel ill-fitting here - while less talented actors like Josh Pence stick out like sore thumbs. You mark this film down as perhaps the only time in his LRF career that John Malone had a film that didn't completely nail the casting.
Looking at Star Trek: Enterprise now, the problems I initially had with it are all still there but the story itself isn't half-bad. The opening action sequence is a great precursor to some of the bigger action scenes John Malone has penned for some of his recent blockbusters. Opening the film with such a great scene turned out to be a bit of a double-edged sword though. It certainly grabs your attention, but then nothing else in the film is quite as exciting, so it is more or less downhill from then on. It was still a good deal better than I remembered it being - or initially felt it was.
Original Grade: D+
New Grade: C+
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