Yet another amuzement by Abrams

Rating: 10/10 (17 June 2009)

Frankly speaking, I'm not a trekkie. I don't even watch a episode of the original series. But I am a big fan of Abrams since Lost, MI:3 and Cloverfield. I did enjoy what JJ brought to the audiences, those stylish direction of action and fresh creativity of story telling perspective(Cloverfield and Lost). So I did have lots of expectation when I walked into the cinema. When the ending credit started rolling, my head was filled with "Wow!" and "Yeah!". You did it again, Abrams. You successfully created an instant classic of epic sci-fi hip movie. I was fully satisfied even exceeded my expectation. The 127 minutes seems so fast to me (especially after watching the "short but seems long" Terminator Salvation). Although there are some insufficiencies in the plot but those cool space fighting CGI scenes and blood-boiling action scenes did covered the little imperfect in the plot. Talking about the casts, without any presumptions, I could say Zachary Quinto did give me surprise. I watched his performance in Heroes when he played Sylar, a cold-blooded serial killer. In this movie, he plays Spock, a trying to be cold-blooded character. He pulled a good job in portraying the internal conflict in weather to feel like a human or logic like a Vulcan. The other cast who impressed me is Eric Bana, the all time protagonist who plays Nero the evil alien. I almost couldn't recognize him by looking at his bold head with scary tattoos. His villain role was unexpectedly vivid and believable. Karl Urban, always casted as a villain (both in The Bourne Supremacy and The Chronicles of Riddick) plays Dr. Bone with a comedy manner and fitted his role perfectly. The rest of the casts performed good enough to earn my satisfaction. And some other features gave me an entertaining 127 minutes (Score, Visual effects...), i could say this is the best movie in 2009 (till June), if you are still in a dilemma between Terminator Salvation and Star Trek, trust your heart, choose the one you like, but if i were you, trust this review, or trust JJ Abrams.