My review of Star Trek: into darkness

[Ohioguy]

It's no World War Z (complete turd), but it sure tries hard to be a
mashup between 1982's Star Trek II and Transformers. The movie is more
of a "whiz-bang" action movie that just *happens* to have some Star Trek
stuff in it.

ST: Into darkness is actually a pretty passable action flick, if you
like things moving around so fast that it distracts you all the time
from following the plot, much like the Transformers movies. (Man, each
time I promise myself I won't go watch another one, but then I do anyway)

One of the main characters resigns from his post for ethical reasons
for all of 20 minutes. Another is demoted for perhaps 15 minutes before
being reinstated to his original post. Another main character dies -
for about 10 minutes before being brought back to life just like in the
comic books, completely negating any meaningful reaction from fans to
his death and noble sacrifice. The movie is chock full of very
temporary changes like this.

Doctor McCoy's lines are pretty funny through the movie - until they
start to overdo it - and then you start to wince as they keep pushing it
more and more, and he just seems like an annoying stand up comedian.

You know that a movie is kind of bad when you wife turns to a little
more than halfway through and jokes about a zombie tribble turning into
the first Borg, and you turn to here and respond with "You will be
assimilated - cooo!" We usually only do that sort of thing with the
really bad movies, when we're bored.

You get the feeling while watching the movie that Paramount didn't
learn a single lesson from Star Trek Nemesis. No, we don't want you to
simply copy an old successful movie from the series so that you can make
more $. We want a completely new plot, for once. (how about a sequel to
another old episode, like you did with Space Seed?) Oh, there were some
surprises this time around that kept it from quite sinking to that
level, but overall that was what they were trying to do here.

If I had to list my LEAST favorite Star Trek movies, in order from
the one I liked the least, it would be something like this:

Star Trek Nemesis (ripoff, bad plot, weak villain)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (much too slow)
Star Trek: Into Darkness (whiz-bang fast, parody of itself, ripoff plot)
Star Trek V: (unbalanced, silly God story, happy vulcans)
Star Trek III (a whole movie about undoing the previous one)

I guess after watching Star Trek: Into Darkness, I would suggest that
Trek fans instead try one of these:

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Invasion!

or

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=star+trek+collective
(any of the first 6 results would be excellent viewing, depending
on your personal preferences)

[Lance Corporal Hammer Schultz]

My review:

Good movie.

If you're a Trek fan who expects Abrams to tell what Lenard Nimoy and
William Shatner did in Starfleet Academy, you'll be as frustrated as
the "trekkies" in this newsgroup appear to be.

If you understand that Abrams is using the archetypes to tell a
variation of the Trek story, you'll have a good time.

--
Hammer