It was okay but waste of a Trek film imo retreading an old storyline with some new twists. Still, would have rather had something new considering this is a new Trek with a new timeline.
I thought it was okay, but it was a rerun that sucked in front of the classic. JJ Abrams is totally ruining the series by making Trek more camp and mass audience friendly. He's turning it into Star Wars when Star Wars can be deliberately cheesy as hell without any real sense of making audiences think of the real world outside them. After Kirk/Bones saved Spock and they ran to him in their speedos all I could think was, wtf is this...Star Trek: The College Years? Not as good as the original or the first reboot. Cumberbatch was a good Sherlock in space, but they didn't build him up and follow through for him to be as epic as the original, so he felt like a villain of the week rather than anything substantial. There were like three or four nods to the original Wrath, but it seemed like bones thrown at Trekkies rather than a real effort to get back to what made Trek great. This Kirk seriously needs to grow the **** up. I'm sick of the entitled pretty boy routine whose more of a spoiled brat than a bad ass. There were some good moments. I liked it when Spock cried, but someone pointed out that it was too soon. They've only known each other for less than 2 years. That BFF moment was pure fanservice. Oh well. Maybe I'm asking for too much. On the plothole list... Spoiler they didn't need Kahn's blood when they had 70+ other spares to vampire off of. If I were Starfleet, I'd keep a stiff in every fridge to magically cure the human crew of anything. Kirk's space herpes is magically in remission.
I don't want to give it away, but I'm pretty sure he's the one that blows up the Death Star at the end.
Definitely agree. He's simply brilliant in everything I've seen him in. The saving grace for this film has to be the actors. The cast for the crew is damn near perfect for a Star Trek reboot, IMO, and for a villain, Cumberbatch would be hard to beat. My big problem with the film is what bothers a lot of other long time fans (I saw the original series every week when it came out in the '60's, and didn't miss an episode), which would be the script. For god's sake, can we come up with some original plot lines? Do we absolutely have to rehash another plot from the original series and films? Get a new scriptwriter, please, like yesterday.
