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J J Abrams has taken control of
the Star Trek franchise and rebooted it to give it a new lease of life.
The questions is, did it work?
The movie starts In the year 2233
and the USS Kelvin is investigating a lightning storm in space.
This is where we first meet Nero (Eric Bana), who starts to attack the
Star Ship for no reason. Captain Robau hands the ship over to
George Kirk, who promptly tells everyone to evacuate the ship but,
directs the ship himself into the attacker. This is because some
automated system conveniently goes down.
We move forward to when Jim is
around eight years old and is being chased in an old sports car by a
policeman. These events are meant to explain why Jim behaves the
way he does later on in his life, allegedly.
We move for to the present time in
the film and Jim is in a bar, trying to chat up Nyota Uhura and not
succeeding very well. When he starts a fight with some Star Fleet
officers and their captain breaks the fight up. Captain pike talks
to Jim about his fathers heroic actions that saved eight hundred people,
including Jim's. He encourages Jim to join Star Fleet and protect
the Federation like his father did. You know what's going to
happen.
At the same time as these events
occur, Spock is also going through his own problems on Vulcan.
Being half Vulcan and half human, Spock has to decide his own destiny,
and the rest as they say is history.
I found the movie to be generic
and a little shallow on the story side, but as this is the first new
film, I'll cut it some slack.
The trouble was that I thought I
was watching a Star Wars movie, more than a Star Trek film. They
even had their own version of an Ewok for crying out loud. The
characters felt forced. My mind might be a little clouded by the
fact that I have over forty years of Star Trek to compare this film to
and it isn't one of the best. It isn't one of the worst by a long
way either. The special effects were stunning and if that was the
basis of a good film, this would get top marks.
If you are a Star Trek fan, I
would advise you to leave that at the doorway to the cinema, because you
will be disappointed. If you aren't a huge Star Trek fan, you will
enjoy this movie for what it is and that is an action pack adventure
film that makes little sense. Leonard Nemoy makes an appearance in
this film and that alone is a good enough reason to go and see this
film.
Just like the original Star Trek
Movie, this one isn't special and if history repeats itself, will lead
on to a superb sequel.
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