Average action entertainment

Rating: 6/10 (30 June 2009)

I don't think I've seen many balanced opinions, people seem to either love or hate this movie. Personally, I don't see what the fuss is all about: I remember the original Star Trek always just made me laugh, whether Kirk was being seduced by people in ancient costumes or wrestling with green lizards that made Ed Wood saucers look fairly plausible; my nostalgic adherence to it comes solely from the fact that when I used to watch it, I was much younger and living in happier times. So, no, I wouldn't like to watch exactly this kind of product in a movie theater again, and I got nothing to mourn.
Yes, the new movie is as dumb as action movies go these days, with characters that offer as much depth as your average tea cup and a plot that defies the definition of plot in any explanatory dictionary. Still, I liked the way it looked, and the music is very solid. You really need to turn your brain off, tho. Expect a simple action movie. A bit better than XXX, a bit less credible, with approximately the same message: when you see a guy who says that he wants to kill everybody, you need to smash his face. Yep. Hope they hire some waaaaay better writers for the sequel, really. Know it's not going to happen.