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Star Trek review – No spoilers

Ten out of Ten?? This movie from a special effects perspective was good. It lacked depth and felt like a ride at an amusement park. Most people will like it….to me it was a major disappointment. JJ Abrams does it again….with his smoke and mirrors. Very shallow and uninspiring.

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We always going to have someone whom is closet trekkie or something complain about the new movie. Get over it. Its a great movie. The movie had more depth than all star trek movies before it. Yes its better than even Wrath of Khan, a classic. If you want to give it a bad review just to give a bad review, shame on you.
I agree with the 10 out 10 review because movie deserves it.

Are there no purist left? To change the time line of the whole trek universe, anyone not bothered by this fact alone shouldn’t call themselves trek fans!!!

Joey….this movie was made for people like you. It was enjoyable, but very 2-dimensional. Better than all Star Trek movies before it??? Come on. It's made for the intelligence of today…which isn't saying much.

loved the movie. although i do not have any trek posters on my wall or know the middle name of kirk's son i have watched most of the star trek stuff. I, like the Trek story, have been around for a while. it all works. what's wrong with the time line? I thought Spock talking to himself was kind of hoaky, but it's a movie. They don't make $50 mill movies for a couple of thousand people who might know the middle name of kirk's son. Purity, like wine, over time will age well or sour.

I will definitely have to agree with this guy. I've been waiting for this film for years, but a part of me was waiting to be disappointed, and I can honestly say that I wasn't.

The writing was very creative in that now the star trek universe we all know and love is gone, but more excitingly a whole new one can be created. I honestly expected that at the end of the film the time line would be fixed and everything would return to the normal trek universe were all familiar with. But even though I was slightly saddened that didn't happen, I was left very impressed that they had the balls to do it!

Great new crew, great looking ship, with a very 'real' and 'raw edge' feel to it – just what the franchise needed! Im sure Paramount will be very impressed of their new lucrative, re-born Star Trek!

A must see film, action packed and funny with emotional references to its star trek history – “the kirk / spock re-union brought a tear to my eye !”

Definitely worth watching for a 2nd time.

10/10

I totally agree. I was suprised at how I was just thrilled with the moments that tied it all in. You totally knew when the classic ines were coming and I was mouthing them right along with the movie. “I am and always will be your friend.” I also agree about the Engine room. And the transport scene……A little to slapstick for me, but I'm over it.

Probably the most anticipated movie of my life. And it paid off!

THIS WAS THE VERY BEST YET, I ENJOYED IT IMMENSELY… AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm going to see it again and again! Rating is a 10 A+!!!

This was on Awesome movie from start to finish very satisfying on all fronts. Not being a trekkie, I thought Id give it a try, the reviews have be very good, and I will second and third all the reviews. This is what summer sci-fi action movies are all about. Reminds me of seeing Star Wars that summer when I was 14. A great place to escape and thrill in what has been created. Long live Star Trek.

I loved it. I was dreading going, really. I was afraid they'd kill it like the X-Men movies did (I'm still fuming about Rogue! Why make her less awesome?) I'm not a hardcore Trekkie but theres a reason they made a movie and not a remake of the series. The timeline change is, I believe, going to make the next one (cause you know there will be one) interesting.

The actors were superb. The script was witty and captivating. Listening to Spock talk was as hard to follow as always although, I did think he was more emotion then I remember.

And I agree with whoever said it was better then Wrath of Khan. Khan was a very differently quality. If it was good in one aspect it was bad in another while this movie just rocked in 4 corners.

I just saw the film today. It was okay, and coudl have been great, but for me it fell down on two MAJOR plot inconsistenices.

Possible spoilers:

The first is the exceptionally coincidental meeting on the ice planet (they find each other in a cave and in the following 2 mins we get the whole plot laid out for us – and everything that happens subsequently stems from this meeting. It is simply too much of a coincidence for such an important part). The second is the whole mining aspect – why does the villain need to do this when the weapon can be detonated by a standard torpedo (as we know from the bad guys' reluctance to fire towards the end of the film)? I won't even bother to mention what it does to the Star Trek continuity now that a major location has been removed.

I am not a hard core trekkie fan by any means, but I do like things to make sense – the above simply didn't.

The actors were good, though I think Simon Pegg was too much (and I usually like him). What didn't work on a different level was the slight comedic moments thrown into a plot which involves mass genocide, and personally I think that tyring to introduce all the original crew was a step too far. It would have made more sense to have just Spock and Kirk rather than try to give a back-story to everyone which led to too many characters vying for airtime and subsequently took our attention away from the plot, and prevented any emotional connection to the characters.

It is an okay film, 4 out 10 due to the plot flaws which are considerable, and I was left feeling veryunderwhelmed in a movie that I feel certain coudl have been so much better if the editing was tighter (why do we need to see young Kirk and the grand canyon business – that had no bearing at all on any of the film and was 2 minutes totally wasted – likewise the creatures on the Ice planet!)

The actors have got it, they just need a better story than this to pull off the great movie that I am sure they are capable of if they have a better storyline.

Yeah except for things like:

- reused Cloverfield monster
- shakycam bullshit, or maybe “shiftycam” is better to define it
- all those goddamn lens flares
- Zachary Quinto as Spock
- the whole “let's give a bunch of 20 somethings control of a spaceship without any oversight” concept
- playing with the Star Trek timeline… again.
- JJ Abrams
- Zac Effron wannabe as Kirk? yeah, ok

I could go on.

Needless to say, I won't be seeing this movie. It's an action-movie piece of crap that just happens to have some basic Star Trek elements at its core. Star Trek is about intergalactic politics, the human condition, social interactions, and space wars… not teenage angst, skydiving, monsters, or getting laid.

They already have that. It's called “every other crappy action movie that has no point other than making money”.

You should revise your rating to something along the lines of “8/10 for an action movie, 2/10 for a Star Trek movie” because your current statements are full of suck.

–Kyle

Seth: Could you explain please? Why do you find it shallow? Its always easy to say

I agree. I had really high expectations for Indy 4 and I was disappointed. I hadn't read any reviews before seeing Star Trek, so I was pleasantly surprised.

I won't reveal the end, but again I agree. I think JJ Abrams pulled it off nicely.

Hey Frank,
Quite correct but those of us purists need to give the new franchise a shot-remem how bad the episodes of TOS were at times?? I saw the first one on TV at age 11-and all of the movies on the first day.

As a writer mtself, I do think that the use of time travel to adjust historical reality is a cop-out and was unnecessary. The “Enterprise” TV series also used this technique whenj they were out of story material.

I had hoped Delta Vega would feature an at least somewhat graphical appearance to the TOS episode involving that place. But these are Trekker details lost on all but those of us that grew up with it.

The original Kirk served on a different ship and so did all those few loves of his life never mentioned here-Ruth, Janice Lester, etc. I had hoped to see thenm and actually thought that the pregnancy scene was Dr. Carol Marcus-not Kirk himself, which was way overdone and rather out of bounds-but I didn't write the script!

It was a great movie-not enough character devel, but I bet thats in the next movie. Ill be there, if I live that long!

Welcome to all new Trek fans, perhaps they will suggest new things, as TOS did the PC, Cell phone, and the floppy disk (remember those?)

Joe Manduke

Kyle: Remember the movie's slogan: This is not your father's Star Trek. Its a reboot. They use the same characters from the original series, but that is mostly. It has nothing to do with the old series. You should watch with that in mind.

So do yourself a favour and watch the movie and let me hear your thoughts after that We can't seriously discuss the movie unless you've seen it.

Yes, what is worse where is a canyon like that in Iowa?? lol

lol I know it's a “reboot”, but… I don't think it needs to be rebooted. If they wanted to do Star Trek, they should have continued the timeline, something as a followup to Voyager to DS-9. That would have placated everybody.

And they could have made it more actiony if they wanted, without needing to piss people off.

Also, you don't pick JJ Abrams to do a reboot of an epic franchise – I don't care who you are. You pick him to get retarded ideas started and popular, and then leave.

I refuse to watch this, in theaters or DVD, on principle.

–Kyle

Some rip-offs from Luke Skywalker and a beast in the Ice Cave

Wow it's like all you have in life is the Star Trek universe. I loved it my kids have never watched 1 tiny inkling of Star Trek and they loved it, they are only 10 & 11. It has some oddities in it but it also had the perfect explainable story line and scientific explanations was AMAZING. I love Star Trek I love Zachary Quinto ( the Spock eye candy of course) as the perfect young version of Spock. The story was not predictable it sucked you in and kept the feel of Star Trek.

who knew Eric Bana was a “Trekkie”? He did a great job as the villain though seriously

Honestly, Kyle, if you were a fan of Star Trek, you owe it to yourself to see this movie. I was very hesitant to be excited about this movie. The hard core geek in me kept getting excited, but I tempered myself. How can you re invent something that has less bearing than it did in 1960? Allow me to explain:

Gene Roddenberry created Star Trek in the sixties, and it really struck home with some very real social issues of the day. You had the brash American Captian, the alien science officer, a Russian, Asian, and BLACK WOMAN working together. This was completely unheard of at the time. It struck a cord with the people, and it became so loved because everyone saw the utopian idea of everyone, regardless of race, species, and gender, could work together and be part of something amazing.

Fast forward to 2009. Many of those ideas that we loved (the line “stay golden, pony boy” comes to mind) have been done over so many times that, well, Star Trek just isnt original. We've seen it. Here comes JJ Abrams with a new idea. Lets re-invent Star Trek. The crew comes together because of some tradegy (not going to ruin the movie, but its shades of 9/11.). Its very “real”.

True Trekkies will understand why star trek needs to be re invented. There is so much that we lose when we keep staying the course with material that isn't suited for our time. Kirk wouln't stay the course, he was never scared to blaze a new trail himself. JJ Abrams took this idea and ran.

Kyle, I hope you change your mind, and see this movie. Even if its on DVD, or you steal it on the internet. Its why Star Trek will still be alive and well in 2010 and beyond. This movie truly goes where no Star Trek has gone before!

Very well put indeed!

I finally took the time to explain exactly why I won't be seeing the movie: .

Hopefully that explains it rather clearly.

–Kyle

dude, grow up and see the movie before you judge it. I saw a couple of the movies when i was little and yeahhhhh…. didnt really care for it. data was alright but besides the point. Anyway, went and saw the new one, and loved it!!!!

i am actually revisting the old series now, getting a feel for the history of the place. I think that i appreciate them more now than i had earlier, easily, and im sure it has helped a lot of my generation feel the same way!! you should at least see the movie, because it kinda sounds like you are refusing based on your preconceptions more than anything. besides, if it really is as bad as you say, after seeing the movie, you have the privilidge of criticing it properly :p

Well I'm glad you have such insight. Comments like “dude grow up” and “i saw a couple of the movies when i was little and yeahhh… didn't really care for it “?

That means I don't care about your opinion.

Enjoy the ranks of the unintelligent.

–Kyle

you'll see it at some point in your life you will watch the movie p.s its 2011… I wonder if you have seen it yet ^_^.

I love Star Trek. I started watching it with my grandfather when I was 3 and it has had great influence on my life. One of my earliest memories is of the USS Voyager gliding over the ringed planet in the theme song. This movie along with the fans has kept trek alive and given it new possibilities… just enjoy it for what it is… Trek