Weak science fiction movie with little relation to Star Trek

Rating: 3/10 (3 February 2011)

This is a movie very loosely connected to Star Trek, they basically took the character names from the original series and threw in a cameo by the original Spock and then wrote a lame action movie screenplay that has nothing to do with Star Trek themes.
But even as a dumb action movie set in the future this has little to offer. Sure, there are a few good action scenes in it, but the story is so stupid and distracting with most of the main characters being very dull and played by bad actors that the movie quickly becomes a bore to watch.
The cast is largely terrible, with only two bright spots, Karl Urban as Dr. 'Bones' McCoy and Anton Yelchin as Chekov. Urban is especially entertaining as Dr. McCoy, he plays it as a homage and does an excellent imitation of the original character, voice and mannerisms. But he doesn't get much screen time, and once he goes off screen the movie loses much of its fun. Yelchin as Checkov is good too, with a hammy Russian accent and a mischievous gleam in his eye and he plays it up to the hilt.
Still, these two can't stop the movie from being a failure. A confused and disjointed story line doesn't help. And with the villains being some of the lamest in history, they are dressed up as gangster thugs and dumb as rocks. Who ever thought these characters would make interesting bad guys should be fired from screen writing.