Nice fast-paced action movie - but not Star Trek

Rating: 5/10 (26 August 2009)

This movie is an acceptable action Sci-Fi flick, good to watch but soon to be forgotten. Thus it is a lot better than the last Star Trek movies.
However, be warned that is is not Star Trek.
My boyfriend called it a zombie movie. Everything looks quite good if you give it only a short look, the costumes are nice and stylish, the acting is fine, the design of the Enterprise is very good and the special effects are entertaining. What is missing is the soul - like a zombie who still looks and speaks like the person he once was, but has lost its soul. That what made him himself is missing, it's a hull filled with something else. In this case it is filled with the fast-paced plot. Very easy to understand for people who don't watch Sci-Fi on television, fast-paced so that even people with a low attention span can enjoy it, but all in all a bit brain dead.
There is nothing of the utopian Federation world the series featured in the past, nothing of the deep humanism I came to love.