Mostly, it just doesn't work. You know that nothing is going to happen to Picard, and (surely you can't care enough about this one to mind me telling you this) even though Data is theoretically destroyed, his memories are basically in his duplicate, so it evens out...fake pathos is the worst, this was totally Spielbergesque. There were a couple of good scenes, but the reality police were swarming all over this one:

• OK, the name Romulan was coined in the first shows in the 60s...but a sister planet named Remus? Give me a break, how incredibly stupid. Why on earth would even a scriptwriter make that up?
• In the futuristic federation, the supercool landing craft have...off road vehicles with rubber tires and automobile suspension for land work? I don't think so. Laughable.
• And they didn't figure out that the pieces of robot were a trap? I did, as soon as they found the first one. How come the federation is full of people who are dumber than me? Do I want to go to this future???
• And the kid who's supposed to be Picard's clone...sure, they beat him up some in the mines. That's why he looks nothing like Patrick Stewart, even to the point of actually having lips, but everyone SAYS they look alike, so it must be true. The magic of Hollywood.
• And speaking of which, we are supposed to think Picard and this kid look alike...because the kid ALSO HAS NO HAIR! Are we to believe that Jean-Luc went completely bald at, what, nineteen? I don't think so.
• And because the genetic voodoo that was suposed to make him age quickly to look like Picard didn't happen, something wierd is happening to his body...ok, makes sense. But what is this 'procedure' they keep trying to get him to do all about? can't be the aging thing, they said the time for that was over...so what was going on there?
• And then they blow up the spaceship with the evil radiation, just before it fires the radiation at the Enterprise. DIDN'T THAT SPREAD THE EVIL RADIATION EVERYWHERE? Evidently not. Hah!
• And finally, my all time favorite, brought back from the hated and reviled Generations movie: a big hole is blown in a spaceship, and all the air rushes out into space...and all that happens to the people in that room is that the air leaving the ship pulls them toward the hole. No explosive decompression. No eyeballs popping out of their heads. No lungs coming up through their throats. Nobody's skin starts leaking blood from exploding capillaries. The hole in the side of the ship doesn't expand to the size of the room. And then the hole is covered (by what? their shields are down) and everything is fine.
• And why, when they divert all energy from life support to the engines, do they still have air, heat and light???

I could go on, but I don't think I need to...you get the picture.

Patrick Stewart is a serious honey, but the rest of the STTNG crowd is getting a little, um, well...porky is the word that comes to mind, actually. Hope they're smart enough to stop making movies before they become as pathetic as the 60s group...

DO NOT pay for this in a theatre, no matter how much you like STTNG or special effects. It just ain't worth it, folks.