Absolutely Horrible

Rating: 1/10 (21 November 2014)

I was drawn in by the movie, liking Star Treck NG, VOY quite a lot, and then seeing this really high rating on the movie review sites. Not wanting to spoil myself, I didn't read any of the reviews and just watched the movie - what a wasted two hours these were!
The other low-rating reviews are completely right. "Star Trek implored us to do good and explore", someone writes, "this movie seems more about promoting violence". Check. At the end of the movie, Kirk crippled the Romulan ship:
Kirk: "I offer you assistance." Spock: "What are you doing? This would be unwise." Kirk: "Sssh, I just offered that so maybe we score with the Romulan empire." Nero: "I would rather dieeeee than accept assistance!!!" Kirk: "Okay. Have at him. Fire all laserz." Nero's Ship: BAMMMMM!
And it stays at that level of cheesy predictability. Like when Kirk just totally coincidentally stumbled upon Spock's older self, who, by the way, saved Kirk in the last second. Gosh, wasn't it a lucky shot that they were both abandoned on the same planet within walking distance? Anyway:
Old Spock: "You have to take control as a captain of the Enterprise." Kirk: "How would I do that?!" Old Spock: "Tell my younger self that he is emotionally compromised. He will resign."
Not even five minutes later:
Kirk: "Spock, don't you feel anything? Your mother just died! But you probably never even loved her anyway." Spock: "RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWR" Spock: "I resign because I am emotionally compromised." (he literally has to spell out the exact reason again, in case the viewer forgot.) Kirk: "I am now Captain." Crew: "Aye Captain."
Oh yes, and Uhura has a sex interest in Spock. Who knew? There's a long drawn out scene in the turbolift for you to get the point. Ugh.
Horrible, horrible movie. Bad acting, plot holes that even as a non- hard core Trekkie will take you out of the movie more than once, making you rethink if what just happened even makes any sort of sense. It's like the entire movie has ADHD.
Before watching it, I considered gifting it to my mother (a Star Trek fan) for the holidays, since it has all the old characters in it, and shows what happened "before" everything started - but no way. This isn't even Star Trek, the entire movie is set in an alternative timeline starting from the get go, which then becomes the canon timeline. Yeah, right. What a waste.