OK Star Trek film

Rating: 6/10 (17 December 2009)

The good aspects of this film are......
Absolutely stunning visuals. For this reason I am kicking myself for not having seen it in the cinema. If you have invested in a premium home entertainment system, with wide screen, hi-fi stereo and blu-ray disk, you will collect on your investment watching this film.
Excellent actions scenes. There's fist fights, running firefights with phasers, and ship to ship battles.
Also, there's a cute sense of nostalgia. I like the fact that the original Enterprise bridge noises are back.
The bad:
The theme music is lame, and there really is too much of it. Every second scene seems to conclude with an unnecessarily loud blast of orchestral crescendo. I find this annoying. And as directing techniques go, it's about as subtle as holding up a placard saying "this is really dramatic, folks!"
And more importantly, the characters' motivations are somewhat nonsensical. For this reason, I have rated the film only 6, rather than 7. I just found it a little disappointing that JJ Abrams didn't take the opportunity of this "reboot" of Star Trek to give us a slightly more intelligent plot.