"As if Star Trek never have existed" - in a bad way

Rating: 1/10 (5 January 2013)

Or better, as if someone took Mona Lisa and studied her for a few minutes, then painted Snooki on a canvas and named it "Mona Lisa 2009" . Now, before I really start writing why this movie is a complete catastrophe, I will ask you a question - if this movie wasn't based on 50 year old series, which has a huge background behind, would anything about it happen? Would it get such a high budget, would so many actors audition for it, would people rush as much to see it? In my opinion, of course not.
"So, Gene Roddenberry is dead, we can now ruin his life's work, and of course, make a bunch of money on it." - I think this is what J.J. Abrams and other writers were thinking when working on this. J.J. Abrams is a good artist, Fringe is incredible, but please Abrams, stay away from Star Trek.
Let's start with the idea of Trek reboot. As I said, this is a 50 year old saga, which marked a huge fire power for science fiction, TV if not humanity in general. A reboot of it isn't nearly done properly, this should be epic, powerful, marking, significant... Instead, 2009 Trek is/was expected to survive and gather fame on original series' fame and fans. Actors really did a fine job, I will give you that, but the only one who really resembled and looked like the original character is Spock played by Quinto. I will admit that others also did good, and I liked them shown from a different perspective but none of them lived up to original guys and never gave a feeling of them. The other thing is special effects. At the same time they were incredible and annoying. They look futuristic and wow, but most of the outside scenes were zoomed in to a part of the ship, overdosed with lens flares which were in fact a commercial for Andrew Kramer's Optical Flares plug-in for Adobe After Effects. All in all, this is a profit- targeted project which was only successful because of huge background of Star Trek.