impressed

Rating: 9/10 (31 December 2009)

I will preface this review with the fat that I hate Star Trek and the universe it has created. This has to do with my upbringing and my love of the cerebral type of science fiction and not the pop corn fare that Star Trek seems to normally encompass. This movie was a one word "fun". There were great action set pieces and was sharply written. The movie never meandered and kept my attention for the entire movie and help up to criticism during the viewing. I will usually watch a movie trying to keep my eyes open for things to criticize, and things to praise, but his movie I was just caught up too much in the whole experience that I missed a lot of that. The cast I guess made this movie. With a lesser cast this would have just been some good story telling, but the cast made set this movie more than just popcorn fun. I loved Simon Pegg and wish he could have gotten more screen time. I guess the one downfall that this movie had is the same downfall most action movies have with me and that is the use of crappy editing and shaky cameras during close quarters action scenes. Be it the hand to hand combat on the drill or the phaser shoot out on the mining ship directors need to learn to make these scenes work. This is just a personal gripe that I have, but I also suck so no one should put that much thought into this criticism. Good times.