Star Trek

Rating: 5/10 (9 May 2009)

I am a Trekker. I love Star Trek, in all its incarnations, and was excited when I heard that J.J. Abrams was taking on this franchise.
When it was released I was spellbound. Here was a brand new imagining! The crew were all well cast, especially Karl Urban, as 'Bones', and there were 'nods' to previous entries in the Star Trek canon mixed in, too.
However, it just isn't Star Trek.
For a sci-fi movie, aimed at a new audience, it is well worth a watch. But, for Star Trek fans, this movie, while delivering in scope and action, loses out to a story that is filled with plot holes. If more care had been taken with the script, rather than blinding everyone with effects and blowing things up, this could have been so good.