Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Stephan Hammond It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

k-41314 The story is plastic, the actors are plastic and the set is plastic. This film is rubbish and not any rubbish, the kind of rubbish that only a hack and prostitute like Jar Jar Abrams can put together. Mr Rip off destroys and mocks Star Trek and its ideals and... etc handed Star Wars!?!?!No wonder Donald Drumpf is the president of USofA. The world is full of morons.

iron_net You probably either love or hate the J.J. Abrams Star Trek movies. There's little in between. However, this second movie in the new series is the one that is clearly objectively the worst. Not only is there hardly any coherent story at all. It is also obvious that most of the elements where just shoved in for the sake of providing vague references to earlier movies for those who don't really remember them. Maybe the best example is the moment where Khan reveals his name in a big build-up, a reveal that has absolutely no meaning within the movie because neither do the characters know Khan by that point nor has the name any significance beyond that. The actual plot of the movie goes something like that: There is a Starfleet admiral who who is plotting to start a war with the Klingons. There is a super soldier from the past who the admiral is unfreezing in order to let him fight against the Klingons but refuses. And there is the Enterprise crew who is trying to stop both of them. What sounds like something that could somehow work never manages to become a coherent story. The plans and intentions of the characters just don't make sense and there isn't any reveal that the plot is building up to. "Into Darkness" is another movie that doesn't seem to be based on an actual story but had its thin plot being thought out more or less after the fact.But the worst part about this movie is the fact that it uses the name of a classic brand of mature and enlightened television for a downright regressive effort. There are no real motives in this movie; no different approaches to complex problems or questions; no real despair and no constraints of the human condition. No conversations about incomprehensible phenomena or dilemmas. Instead, the entire movie is solely about who has the strongest punch, the biggest starship and the most snappy line. These means are the only ways to make any impact on the course of events. And whenever the movie gets too boring a starship is dropped on a city full of people to wake the audience up again. This is not even treating the audience like children. Because children are entertained by creativity, richness, emotions and heroism. This is treating us as creatively deprived and apathetic.What causes utter dismay is the sheer imbalance of expensive visual effects, the huge cast of high-class actors and rich movie sets on the one hand and the total absence of a good premise, capable writing or even a basic passion for telling a story on the screen and carry your audience along on the other hand. In fact this movie is one of the instances that make you think of all the great movies that could have been made if you had split the budget between five or even ten passionate filmmakers.

Alex Cutler (acutler) JJ Abrahms apparently went to extraordinarily long lengths to keep the plot twists of this film secret. And I did watch it unspoiled. Problem is - every plot twist was the predictable, dull choice.The main antagonist should have been anyone other than Kahn. There should have been much, much more intelligence on display. The plot was just so pedestrian and derivative.

angelinakontini First of all, it does not follow any of the real Star Trek principles. The ship does not look at all like a starfleet ship. The crew does not talk at all like a starfleet crew. Starfleet represented higher ideals and a formal way of managing a ship. The dialogues are so informal, thoughtless and none can believe that real starfleet officers would talk in such a manner. The first impression of Captain Kirk is that of a fearful, uneducated cadet. Leaders are born, not made and this Kirk does not sound like a leader. I am not sure what is worse, the script or the actors or both. The settings look highly technological, which is completely contrary to the fact that the setting of the original Star Trek was not so technologically advanced. They failed to create a believable timeline. Nothing inside the starship, reminds one of a starfleet starship. This vast inconsistency in style is not believable. The story itself has nothing unique, nothing intelligent, it is like a badly written episode of a 7 season series, but without any real plot. It's all action. Nothing on morality, nothing on exploration, it is just a continuous conflict and an attempt to escape unfortunate circumstances. Not even any brilliant strategical or tactical scenes. The worst thing about it, is how they tried to recreate the scene where Spock died in "The Wrath of Khan" with Kirk in his place. It was obvious that that scene was placed there as an attempt to somehow connect the old with the new Star Trek, totally failing as it came across tasteless, and without any sort of justification from the actual plot. They changed everything, only kept the name and some childish references to the older Star Trek. Disappointing.