Breathtaking Action and Believable Heroes, Innovative and Fresh

Rating: 8/10 (26 June 2009)

I went to see the Star Trek movie on Saturday... spellbinding stuff. All the hype that I had endured while trying to keep my unbiased attitude coming up to this film was quite well-supported... the folks at Bad Robot show that they sure know how to craft a good story with this one.
Brilliantly paced, with spectacular action sequences and a cast so eloquently skilled that they border on real-life. The two-hour roller-coaster ride never gets the wobbles, always pounding on at full throttle, blending the modern and the classic, blending contraries into one melting pot of pure goodness. But enough of my sensationalism, this film is GOOD. From one that has not followed the original series or the string of movies that followed up to this, I found myself surprisingly involved in the story, and not left behind by jargon or subplots that so cleverly constitute possibly the most clever prequel ever made.
Star Trek achieves the near impossible, in that it is so Star-buffickly correct in every way (or at least from what I garnered), yet still satisfying the critical needs of an ignorant buffoon as I who has no idea of the intricacies and sub-plots and conflicts involved in what has become a quasi-cult. However, there were points where I was left wondering how much they were building on the characters, and whether they were trying to develop their personas or rather establish the already known. As if no ground was covered, as if this was another journey in the grand space of things (no pun intended), however this could have been a merit in itself.
Overall, this film succeeded so much as it did for the sheer fact that the humor was exquisite, the characters 3-dimensional and believable, and the family elements that were evident through its apparent lack of violence even shown through morals and touching elements that are so lacking in today's film niche, and therefore it is worth seeing, I put all my chips down on this one. Solid effort. 8/10.