Best Sci-Fi Film I've Ever Seen

Rating: 8/10 (29 May 2009)

To be honest, I'm not a big fan of Star Trek. His baldness and the strange-eared never appealed to me and therefore I've never watched more than one episode, but the spectacular trailer got me interested. Could Star Trek finally be cool? First of all, the director. J.J. Abrams is one of the finest directors of this time. With Cloverfield he proved he has a new, fresh look on former styles and trends. With Star Trek he proves it again. The directing is absolutely brilliant and as a non-Trekkie I was immediately sucked into the movie.
The realism was interesting too. It's logical that Sci-Fi movies have strange creatures and machinery, because in space, you never know what will happen. Star Trek however, differs from this. You have ordinary guns and ordinary clothes. The thing that got me noticed that even the "aliens" all look remarkably human. I only noticed three real different creatures.
Then the CGI. It was magnificent. Not a good movie though when you're epileptic. The whole film has this massive CGI-sets when hundreds of little ships attack for instance the Enterprise and lots of explosions and debree follows. Most impressive was the destroying of "the" planet though. That was seriously impressive stuff.
As the whole film was actually. The acting is good, the story is good, the action is great and the CGI is unexceedable. Fantastic film.