What about the characters?????!!!

Rating: 1/10 (17 May 2009)

OK, first of all I must say I am not a trekkie, I barely know what star trek means and the only reason I went to the theater to see this movie was because of the so called acclamation of IMDb's users towards it erroneously locating it #69!!! WTF! Better than Fellini's 8½ and 2001: A Space Odyssey?? Or Chinatown??? (not mentioning the entire list). My problems with my movie are the following 1. Although the actors try and make an effort, the few scenes with dialog and character's story are disastrous. We scarcely get to know mr. kirk and what we get to know is nothing but clichés. Wow he jumps of the car and then climbs in the edge of the cliff, excuse me how is this relevant to the story???? Then we just get to know he is a "fight club" sort of guy, that he is a "rebel" and that's it. That's it. And Spock is a man who doesn't seem to care 6 billion people dies (a phrase which is constantly repeated but still didn't impact neither me nor the characters in the screen). And then we don't know at what moment he gets engaged with the Uhura girl, who's first name remains unknown for half of the film "OH HOW FUNNY JAJAJAJ" Ehhmmm.... NO. But then you say, isn't the story interesting. NO. The villain's revenge is such a plain thing, and so is him. "Oh you let my planet be destroyed now I'll destroy yours buahahah". Haven't we heard that many times??. And so the story continues and then has a big plot hole relating time travel which half the theater didn't understand. The movie ends as everyone knew it would end and it leaves nothing to you but a "We should've stayed home and rent something." 2. There is this terribly written screenplay full of phrases such as: "I married your mother because I loved her" (Douh!) or many other ones that only make you wish the movie was over. The rest is just pretty well done, i must say, BAM BAM, BUM, BUM, CRASH! etc etc. But in a nutshell, star trek is a movie that is so clichéd and so desperately willing to amuse you that never accomplishes an specific goal or message just a waste of time and money.