Great Job

Rating: 9/10 (31 August 2016)

I think they did a bang up job. All my favourite characters were there, played by younger actors. I very quickly accepted the new actors. They caught the essence. I choked up every time Leonard Nimoy came on screen playing the future Spock. The characters are in constant danger. I kept thinking they were done for, only perhaps to be rescued by some sort time travel paradox. But each time they concocted some crazy improbable way to rescue themselves. Very imaginative escapes.
Things I did not like: Romulans were much more like Klingons than Romulans. You can't change something that basic without explanation. Someone called out "Godspeed". All the other Star Trek adventures are relentlessly secular. There was too much boring watching spaceships shoot fireworks at each other or people shooting laser pistols at each other.
I burst out laughing at the Romulan spaceship like a giant hairy cockroach, another like a 1920s eggbeater. The drill for some bizarre reason was covered in giant thorns. None of this seemed plausible to me.
Chris Pine was meltingly handsome and charming. In future I hope he gets more kisses planted on those perfect lips of his.