This is the new Trek!

Rating: 9/10 (15 June 2009)

I couldn't believe my eyes while I was watching this film, it's brings new life to these movies and Television shows. How many remakes have they done these past years and of course having seen all the Trek movies I didn't think this would work. I couldn't of been more wrong, in fact this Trek in such a new way of looking at the old characters. Kirk is this is a troubled kid with no direction in his life and Spock is a conflicted character who chooses a controversial path. The look of the movie brings up and beyond that of the Star Wars pictures, which is what it needed. The Star Ships are big and stylish, the technology bright and sweet to dark and menacing. I couldn't of asked for a better Star Trek film. All the old characters are in this movie but also are new in so many ways, you get to know them a little more. Scotty was an exiled member of Starfleet and Uhura had something going with somebody you wouldn't expect. It's amazing that Leonard Nimoy is actually in this film playing his old character and was actually in it for more than two minutes and plays a integral role. It seamlessly weaves the characters into the story without looking overly obvious of 'Hello, I'm Sulu, I am new navigator' or 'I'm McCoy the new doctor'. I love McCoy's first appearance, by the way. It explains him a couple sentences: '...all I've got left is my bones.' There is a part in the film where you will realize 'wow, they are really going that way' and you will know when that is. This is the New Trek and it is good.