Irresponsible

Rating: 7/10 (30 July 2014)

First of all I'd like to say that this is by no means a bad movie. It has stunning visuals which is typical of a J.J. Abrams film. It also has a decent plot and character development but considering the Star Trek canon that has already been established in the form of the television series and the previous movies it just seems like very irresponsible film making to just take the easy way out and change the reality and everything that happened and render it virtually useless because of this movie. The only way I see this being a good idea is if they brought back Captain Kirk who was killed in a previous film which I would have been on board for because he should have never been killed in the first place. Abrams was never a fan of Star Trek and therefore can not understand how insulting this is to a fan of Star Trek. It is quite convenient to be able to use an alternate reality to do whatever you want with a long tradition of storytelling and I believe it to be lazy writing, disrespectful to the previous cast and fans, and as previously stated just outright irresponsible film making. If they were gonna change reality then they darn well should have made kirk live.....hopefully they will bring Kirk back in the third installment of this reboot.